URGENT NEED HELP!!! Contract law: Someone please help me find this quote?

fufureida · 13-11-2011 6:19pm #1

There is a quote I have used in my contract law assignment and the trouble is I have no idea where it is from. It is an important quote and I can't misplace it as it backs up my point perfectly. Would anyone be able to help me?

" A vendor should not be put at risk at finding himself contractually bound to so many parties that he can't meet his obligations under each contract. "

Its due in tommorow and I have it finished I was just going through my citations. PLEASE someone help me out here???

thanks!

Ashashi · 13-11-2011 7:07pm

Can you give any inclination as to what part of contract law it originated from? Consideration, intention to create legal relations, etc.?

fufureida · 13-11-2011 9:45pm

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christ on a bike! · 13-11-2011 9:54pm

Sounds like invitation to treat. One of the leading cases on that perhaps?

murrayp4 · 13-11-2011 9:57pm

Sounds like the boots chemist case or similar

whydoibother? · 13-11-2011 10:27pm

Maybe copy and paste it into a search field on whatever databases you've been using.

fufureida · 13-11-2011 11:34pm

yeah its invitation to treat as well. But i just cant find where the damn thing was said!

blueythebear · 13-11-2011 11:51pm

fufureida wrote: »

yeah its invitation to treat as well. But i just cant find where the damn thing was said!

Check Carbolic Smoke Ball case ?

It's definitely to do with advertisements, i.e. cases whereby advertisements were intended as invitations to treat.

I think there was some case involving a washing machine on sale at a low price and the court said that the retailer was permitted to limit this offer to "while stocks last" or some other limitation.

RandolphEsq · 14-11-2011 12:13am

Grainger & Son v. Gough

"If it were so, the merchant might find himself involved in any number of contractual obligations to supply wine of a particular description which he would be quite unable to carry out, his stock of wine of that description being necessarily limited." Lord Herschell

Selective quoting; "the [vendor] might find himself involved in any number of contractual obligations . . . which he would be quite unable to carry out"

fufureida · 14-11-2011 12:31am

RandolphEsq wrote: »

Grainger & Son v. Gough

"If it were so, the merchant might find himself involved in any number of contractual obligations to supply wine of a particular description which he would be quite unable to carry out, his stock of wine of that description being necessarily limited." Lord Herschell

Selective quoting; "the [vendor] might find himself involved in any number of contractual obligations . . . which he would be quite unable to carry out"

Hi, are you absolutely sure about this? Just clairifying. Thanks again.

RandolphEsq · 14-11-2011 12:40am

fufureida wrote: »

Hi, are you absolutely sure about this? Just clairifying. Thanks again.

Well I don't have the facts or a book to check it but I got this link here http://www.essaybank.com/law/granger-v-gough-invitation-to-treat-v-offer-12385.aspx which quotes the case. If you are doing an essay you surely have access to a Contract Law book or law databases so you can verify it even more if you need to.

fufureida · 14-11-2011 12:45am

thanks a bunch. Also one last question, if you are familiar with the OSCOLA citing system do you know what they mean when they say ask for the number when citing a case? for example:
Partridge v Crittenden [1968] QB 2 All ER 421

what does the "2" stand for? Im getting this citation directly from notes, is it in oscola format? thanks much appreciated.

RandolphEsq · 14-11-2011 12:48am

fufureida wrote: »

thanks a bunch. Also one last question, if you are familiar with the OSCOLA citing system do you know what they mean when they say ask for the number when citing a case? for example:
Partridge v Crittenden [1968] QB 2 All ER 421

what does the "2" stand for? Im getting this citation directly from notes, is it in oscola format? thanks much appreciated.

2 is the volume. So if you were looking up the books of the All England Records from 1968 you would be met with at least 2 books from that year and since there is a 2 in your citation then your case must be in that volume.

fufureida · 14-11-2011 12:51am

I just re read your reply, does that mean that that citation is correct?

RandolphEsq · 14-11-2011 10:38pm

fufureida wrote: »

I just re read your reply, does that mean that that citation is correct?

Yes.

URGENT NEED HELP!!! Contract law: Someone please help me find this quote?

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