Law school · Foundation
Contract Formation
Offer, acceptance, consideration and intention — and what each of them has come to mean in the cases. Every rule is shown against the judgments that made it.
What you get
An Incredible Attorneys platform credential. It is not a qualification recognised by any bar or regulator, and does not entitle the holder to practise.
- Hours
- 24
- Pass mark
- 60%
- Languages
- en
- Modules
- 5
Syllabus
- 1 Offer and invitation to treat Why a shop window is not an offer, and where that line has moved.
- 2 Acceptance and the postal rule Communication, silence, and acceptance by conduct.
- 3 Consideration Sufficiency, past consideration, and promissory estoppel as the escape valve.
- 4 Intention to create legal relations Domestic and commercial presumptions, and how they are rebutted.
- 5 Certainty and completeness Agreements to agree, and what a court will and will not fill in.
What this covers
Each area links to the statutes and judgments that actually govern it, in whichever jurisdiction you are working in.