Manchester Diocesan Council for Education v Commercial and General Investments Ltd [1969] 3 All ER 1593 is a case in English contract law relating to agreement. The court held that the method of acceptance prescribed for a tender, if not expressed "in terms insisting that only acceptance in that mode shall be binding",[1] was not mandatory, and if an offeror wishes it to be mandatory this needs to be made explicit.

This case shows a type of acceptance whereby the method of communication of acceptance is prescribed.[2]

References

  1. ^ Quoted in England and Wales Court of Appeal (Civil Division), Friends Life Ltd v Siemens Hearing Instruments Ltd [2014] EWCA Civ 382 (03 April 2014), accessed 17 August 2023
  2. ^ Simon Salzedo, Peter Brunner, Michael Ottley (2005), Briefcase on Contract Law, p. 21.


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