Keenan and Riches’BUSINESS LAW

notification will normally be of the setting up of other insolvency proceedings such as winding-up. Ring-fencing assets for unse ...

Chapter 6Companies Companies involved in financial markets such as stock- brokers, where existing law is designed to ensure that ...

Part 2Business organisations 198 1 Able and Ben are the promoters of Wye Ltd and are the two subscribers to the memorandum. The ...

Chapter 6Companies 5 As Secretary of Ouse Ltd write a memorandum for the Board explaining the differences between raising financ ...

Part 2Business organisations 200 http://www.berr.gov.ukThe Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) si ...

Part 3 BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS 7 Introduction to the law of contract 203 8 Types of business contract 266 9 The terms of business ...

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Business contracting – generally Once the businessman has decided on the particular form of business organisation that suits his ...

the parties were, in theory, free to take their business elsewhere. The parties were deemed to be of equal bar- gaining strength ...

Chapter 7Introduction to the law of contract Certain contracts, such as conveyances of land, must be made in the form of a deed, ...

It is important to identify when a true offer has been made because once it is accepted the parties are bound. If the words and ...

Chapter 7Introduction to the law of contract and, in more recent times, the Internet, to sell their pro- ducts direct to the pub ...

The acceptance of a tender has different legal con- sequences, depending on the wording of the original invitation to tender. Th ...

Chapter 7Introduction to the law of contract Sometimes it is difficult to decide whether the offeree is making a counter-offer o ...

In Dickinson vDoddsthe offer was expressed to be open until Friday at 9 am. Such an offer may be revoked before the end of the t ...

Chapter 7Introduction to the law of contract 4 If the offer lapses.The offeror may stipulate that the offer is only open for a l ...

made while the offer is still open. It must be absolute and unqualified. Unconditional acceptance If the offeree attempts to var ...

Chapter 7Introduction to the law of contract More effective control of ‘inertia selling’ was intro- duced in the form of the Uns ...

acceptance is posted. Provided the letter is properly stamped, addressed and posted, the contract is formed on posting, even if ...

Chapter 7Introduction to the law of contract Note that the postal rules only apply to the commun- ication of acceptances: offers ...