Offer & Acceptance Case Principle Match

A unilateral offer can be made to the whole world and is accepted by performance.

• Gibson v Manchester City Council

• Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co

• Partridge v Crittenden

• Hyde v Wrench

“May be prepared to sell” is an invitation to treat, not an offer.

• Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co

• Yates v Pulleyn

• Storer v Manchester City Council

• Gibson v Manchester City Council

Will be prepared to sell” is clear enough to be an offer.

• Storer v Manchester City Council

• Gibson v Manchester City Council

• Pharmaceutical Society of GB v Boots

• Stevenson v McLean

Goods in a shop window are an invitation to treat, not an offer.

Display of goods on shelves is an invitation to treat; offer is made at the till.

• Storer v Manchester City Council

• Pharmaceutical Society of GB v Boots

• Partridge v Crittenden

• Routledge v Grant

Advertisements are usually invitations to treat, not offers.

• Felthouse v Bindley

• Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co

• Partridge v Crittenden

• Hyde v Wrench

A counter-offer destroys the original offer.

• A counter-offer destroys the original offer.

• Stevenson v McLean

• Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co

• Dickinson v Dodds

A request for information is not a counter-offer and does not end the original offer.

• Pharmaceutical Society of GB v Boots

• Ramsgate Victoria Hotel v Montefiore

• Hyde v Wrench

• Stevenson v McLean

An offer lapses after a reasonable time.

• Hyde v Wrench

• Routledge v Grant

• Ramsgate Victoria Hotel v Montefiore

• Yates v Pulleyn

Offers can be revoked any time before acceptance, even if promised to remain open.

• Stevenson v McLean

• Routledge v Grant

• Dickinson v Dodds

• Fisher v Bell