| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - 1828 - 810 sider
...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... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - 1828 - 864 sider
...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." Here, however, if the defendant must be considered as continuing to make the offer until it was accepted... | |
| 1843 - 498 sider
...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 in law as making,...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... | |
| 1829 - 964 sider
...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... | |
| 1872 - 988 sider
...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 - 1833 - 400 sider
...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 - 1838 - 904 sider
...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 - 1838 - 910 sider
...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 - 1840 - 816 sider
...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... | |
| John Duer - 1845 - 822 sider
...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,...is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter. The learned reporter, in a note to the case of MlCulloch v. The Eagle Insurance Company, (1 Pick. 283,)... | |
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