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(ii) Offer/proposal
▪ Clause 2a – when one person signifies to another his
willingness to do or to abstain from doing anything,
with a view to obtaining the assent of that other to
the act or abstinence, he is said to make a proposal.
▪ A proposal is an intimation, by words or conduct, of
a willingness to enter into a legally binding contract
and which in its terms expressly or impliedly.
(iii) Acceptance
▪ Clause 2b - when the person to whom the proposal is
made signifies his assent thereto, the proposal is said
to be accepted: a proposal, when accepted, becomes
a promise.
▪ Acceptance of a proposal is the expression by words
or conduct of assent to the terms of the proposal in
the manner prescribed or indicated by the promisor
▪ Clause 7 – acceptance must be absolute
(counteroffer, change of terms, equivocal (qualified
acceptance) = no contract).
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