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BILATERAL &

UNILATERAL
DEFINITION Offer Invitation to treat
CONTRACT
Section 2 (a) of the Contract a sort of preliminary
Bilateral Unilateral Act: communication
which passes
a proposal is made ‘when one
all parties promise to one party promises to between the parties
person signifies to another his
do something for one do something to willingness to do or abstain at the stage of
another; they bind all induce the second negotiation.
from doing anything, with a
parties and are party to do something; view of obtaining the assent of
enforceable against they are binding on that other to such act of
all parties. and enforceable abstinence’.
against only one party,
i.e. the party that
made the promise.

OFFERS AND EXAMPLE OF - a price list


INVITATION TO INVITATION OF
COMMUNICATION - a display of goods with
S4(a): Proposals must be TREAT TREAT
price tags in a supermarket
communicated to the other OF PROPOSAL
party to the extent that the - an advertisement
party accepting the proposal
is aware of the existence of -an auctioneer inviting bids
such proposal in the first for a particular article.
place.

TERMINATION TO WHOM
- Counter offer -particular person
OF PROPOSAL PROPOSAL CAN
- Revocation BE MADE? -general public
- Rejection of offer

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