Termination

• Terms

  • Offer may be revoked by the offerror at anytime until it is accepted, this must be communicated to the offerree
• Byrne v Van Tienhoven

  • revocation was received too late, and offer had already been accepted
• Dickson v Dodds

  • sold it to someone else in the meantime, offerree could not enforce sale as they knew that the property was no longer available
• Routledge v Grant

  • Grant withdrew the offer before the set time was over, the other person could still not accept the offer
• Shuey v United States

  • unilateral offers only revoked through the way it was offered
• Errington v Errington

  • once the person has commenced the tasks of the unilateral offer it cannot be revoked
• Lapse of time

  • offer automatically terminates after specific length of time
  • Ramsgate Victoria Hotel v Montefiore- took too long