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... being "...an expression of willingness to contract on certain terms, made with the intention that it shall become binding as soon as it is accepted by the person to whom it is addressed." In contract circumstances you have an offeror (the person making the offer) and an offeree (the person receiving the offer). An offer must be made in certain terms, i.e. it must not be vague. If an offer is vague then any acceptance to that offer may enable the contract to be void. Although where there is a vague clause that that clause will be stuck out and the rest of the contract would be enforced. This can be seen in the case of Nicolene Ltd v Simmons [1953]1 where an uncertain term was removed from the contract as the court decided that it was "too uncertain."2 An offer must be communicated to the offeree in order for them to accept ...
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