Acceptance

• Felthouse v bindley

  silence is not acceptance
• Acceptance by conduct

  job go ahead before formal contract agreed

  reveille independent LLC case - continued to trade whilst doc remained unsigned
• Insisting

  offeror states acceptance must be in a specified form

  must accept this way

  the Parkinson stove company case
• Suggesting

  offeror suggested method of acceptance

  if not followed acceptance still valid

  yates v pulleyn
• Buying on internet

  the Kodak case - email confirmation would be acceptance

  electronic commerce regulations 2002 - protect consumers when buying off the internet
• Postal rule

  adams v lindsell - acceptance when letter posted

  re London & northern bank - must go in letter box not handed to post man

  avoiding - Howell securities v hughes - say acceptance must be notice in writing
• Emails

  Thomas v bpe solicitors

  postal rule doesn’t apply

  has to be in office hours
• Electronic communications

  the brimnes - doesn’t have to be read

  brinkibon - must be in office hours