1. Contract: Acceptance Case Law

2. Neale v Merret (1930)
Held: The purported acceptance was not in fact
acceptance but a counter offer.

3. Felthouse v Bindley (1862)
Held: Because the nephew had not
communicated his acceptance there was no
contract.

4. Eliason v Henshaw [1819]
Held: an American Case where it was stipulated
acceptance needed to be by a wagon.

5. Powell v Lee (1908)
Held: The acceptance was not valid because the
clerk did not have authority to accept the offer.

6. Brogden v Metropolitan Railway
(1877)
Held: Acceptance had been made by conduct

7. Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co 1893
Held: a unilateral offer was an exception to the
general rule that an advert will amount to an
invitation to treat. In unilateral contracts
acceptance is completed by action. The act is
the form of acceptance.

8. Adams v Lindsell (1881)
Held: This case established the postal rule.

9. Household Fire Assurance v Grant
(1879)
Held: Acceptance had taken place as soon as it
was posted.