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CONTRACT LAW
PRACTICE ESSAY 1

Gertie places a notice in the trade journal ‘Mung Monthly' saying that she would pay £2000 against a ‘wood nymph' Mung vase with its authenticity certificate.

The question is to know whether Gertie's proposal is an offer and could lead to a contract .
The notice in the trade journal stays a proposal to the public. This proposal could amount to an offer if it is intended to result in a contract, if the other party accepts it, and if it contains sufficiently definite terms to form a contract. Gertie's notice is sufficiently definite (there is the price and the vase design) to be treated as an offer.
But is her proposal could be regarded as an invitation to treat?
Two arguments show that Gertie's notice does not have to be treated as an invitation to treat. First, the notice specifies that Gertie will pay a particular sum of money against a particular type of vase . This kind of proposal......

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