Legal English - Unit 3A - Contract Law

The ________’s acceptance of the offer was valid.

• afferee

• offeree

• offeror

• parties

UN involvement in the country’s affairs would set a dangerous _________.

• precedent

• acceptance

• case

• obligation

Acceptance is one of the essential elements of a legally ________contract

• binding

• precedent

• unconditional

• casual

the act of agreeing to form a legally binding agreement based on an offer provided by the other party.

• ratio decidendi

• obiter dictum

• acceptance

• record

easy to recognize as being different from something else

• obliged

• precedential

• distinguishable

• binding

the system of laws that has developed from customs and the decisions of judges rather than from laws made by Parliament

• counter offer

• lapsed

• statutes

• common law

judges words at the end of a case giving his/her decision

• pronouncement

• source

• suggestion

• distinguishable

The _______has indicated that he will keep his offer open only for a specified time.

• offeree

• offeror

• factor

• account

He has not won his case in the court of first ________ before going on to appeal.

• jurisdiction

• case

• instance

• precedent

The lawyers had every _________ of calling Smythe to the witness stand.

• proposal

• intention

• consideration

• offer