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Originally Posted by Less
Why do you keep giving us your homework to do?
Every now and then, you're sent home with some idea from your tutor and instead of getting on with it you expect us to do thinking for you!
It's your degree, at least pretend you are working towards it and leave the rest of us alone.
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On this note, I am currently working on the offer and acceptance of contracts...
I have a scenario for you with two possible routes.
1. Bob is waiting at the bus stop.
The bus arrives, bob gets on, pays the driver the fee and receives his ticket and sits down. Bus sets off.
2. Bob is waiting at the bus stop.
Bus drives passed him even though he indicated he wanted the bus to stop. Bob isn't happy.
In situation 1, who is making the offer, and who makes the acceptance? Is bob making the offer, as he is offering his money, which the bus driver could reject or accept, or is the bus driver making the offer by allowing bob to get onto the bus, and the bob would accept by doing so? Or is the bus company making the offer by having a bus shelter available in the first place?
In situation 2, is the building of a bus shelter an offer of services? If yes, would it be acceptance to stand in the bus shelter? If you can say yes to both of these then are you breaching contract by only standing in the bus shelter for shelter rather than intention to get onto the bus?
These questions have been raised in the courts, but I still ponder over them as the answers are still quite uncertain. What do YOU think?
EDIT: Remember that the law doesn't necessarily recognise 'common sense', and in most contract law it is completely ignored
