MCS 3040 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Fax, Standard Form Contract
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Basic elements of a contract - that it is: An agreement i. e. composed of an offer and acceptance. Deliberate i. e. intention to create legal relations is present. Before a contract can be in place, the parties must be in agreement. They must have reached a consensus as to their rights and obligations. The agreement takes the form of offer and acceptance. Offer: a promise to perform specified acts on certain terms. At this point, negotiations take an important turn -> ann is entitled to accept that offer, and upon doing so, trackers is obligated to supply its product exactly as jason proposed. Only a complete offer can form the basis of a contract -> all the essential terms must be set out or the contract will fail for uncertainty. An offer does not have to meet the standard of perfect clarity and precision in how it is expressed.