 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Peregrine Bingham - 1828 - 810 pages
...that the defendants had received their answer and assented to it. And so it might go on ad infinitum. The defendants must be considered in law as making...offer to the plaintiffs; and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter." If they are to be considered as making the offer... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, John Bayly Moore, Joseph Payne - 1828 - 864 pages
...that the defendants had received their answer and assented to it. And so it might go on ad infinitum. The defendants must be considered in law as making,...offer to the plaintiffs, and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter." Here, however, if the defendant must be considered... | |
 | 1843 - 498 pages
...offer was sent and an acceptance returned by mail. In the case of Adams v. Lindsell,1 the court say, " the defendants must be considered in law as making,...letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the plaintiff; and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter." That case directly... | |
 | 1829 - 964 pages
...observing, that, if it were not so, no contract could ever be completed by the post ; that the defendant must be considered in law, as making, during every instant of the time the letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the plaintiff; and then the contract is completed... | |
 | 1872 - 988 pages
...answered it, accepting the offer, the question was, in whom the fault lay. Lord Teuterden says — " The defendants must be considered in law as making...offer to the plaintiffs ; and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the letter. Then as to the delay in notifying the acceptance,... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1833 - 400 pages
...later, than it otherwise would if properly directed. The court held as a principle in such cases, that A must be considered in law as making, during every instant of the time that his letter was travelling, the same identical offer to B ; consequently the contract is completed... | |
 | William Burge - 1838 - 910 pages
...received his answer, and assented to it. And so it might go on ad infinitum. The person who sent the offer must be considered in law as making, during every instant of the time his letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the party to whom it is addressed, and then... | |
 | Alabama. Supreme Court, Benjamin Faneuil Porter - 1840 - 816 pages
...sooner withdrawn— (Adams vs. Lindsell, 1 Barn. & Aid. R. 681.) In the case here cited, the court say, "the defendants must be considered, in law, as making, during every instant of time their letter was travelling, the same Identical offer to the plaintiffs ; and the contract is... | |
 | John Duer - 1845 - 822 pages
...that the defendants had received their answer and assented to it, and so it might go on ad infinitum. The defendants must be considered in law, as making,...offer to the plaintiffs : and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter. The learned reporter, in a note to the case of MlCulloch... | |
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The defendants must be considered in law as making. during every instant of the time their letter was travelling, the same identical offer to the plaintiffs, and then the contract is completed by the acceptance of it by the latter. 
