 ... the defendants were not bound by their offer when accepted by the plaintiffs till the answer was received, then the plaintiffs ought not to be bound till after they had received the notification that the defendants had received their answer and assented...  The State Reports, New South Wales - Page 311by New South Wales. Supreme Court - 1905Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - Law reports, digests, etc - 1828 - 810 pages
...that the defendants had received their answer and assented to it. And so it might go on ad infinitum. The defendants must be considered in law as making...completed by the acceptance of it by the latter." If they are to be considered as making the offer till it is accepted, the other may say, " make no... | |
 | Law - 1843 - 498 pages
...cited, where an offer was sent and an acceptance returned by mail. In the case of Adams v. Lindsell,1 the court say, " the defendants must be considered...letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the plaintiff; and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter." That case directly... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1829 - 964 pages
...observing, that, if it were not so, no contract could ever be completed by the post ; that the defendant must be considered in law, as making, during every instant of the time the letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the plaintiff; and then the contract is completed... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 988 pages
...answered it, accepting the offer, the question was, in whom the fault lay. Lord Teuterden says — " The defendants must be considered in law as making...contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the letter. Then as to the delay in notifying the acceptance, that arises entirely from the mistake of... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - Commercial law - 1833 - 400 pages
...later, than it otherwise would if properly directed. The court held as a principle in such cases, that A must be considered in law as making, during every instant of the time that his letter was travelling, the same identical offer to B ; consequently the contract is completed... | |
 | William Burge - Comparative law - 1838 - 904 pages
...the time his letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the party to whom it is addressed, and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter, (d) (a) 11 Ves. 591, per Lord Eldon. (b) Holland v. Eyre, 2 Sim. and Stu. 194. Routledge v. Grant,... | |
 | William Burge - Comparative law - 1838 - 910 pages
...received his answer, and assented to it. And so it might go on ad infinitum. The person who sent the offer must be considered in law as making, during every instant of the time his letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the party to whom it is addressed, and then... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - Law reports, digests, etc - 1840 - 816 pages
...proposition is sooner withdrawn— (Adams vs. Lindsell, 1 Barn. & Aid. R. 681.) In the case here cited, the court say, "the defendants must be considered, in law, as making, during every instant of time their letter was travelling, the same Identical offer to the plaintiffs ; and the contract is... | |
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