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Guthing v Lynn
Pay $5 if the horse brings luck.
Held: A statement which was too vague did not amount to an offer.
Taylor v Laird
A captain of a ship decided to step down during a trip and went back to working as a
normal member of the crew. Upon returning, he tried to claim wages from the owner of
the ship, but the ship owner was unaware of Taylor's decision to quit his job as captain
and he had not received an offer from Taylor to work in alternative capacity.
Held: His claim failed because Laird did not have an offer from the commander to
guilty.
Partridge v Crittenden
Held: The advertisement was an invitation to treat, if it was an offer then there may
between them. Thus, the defendant cannot simply terminate his post.
Payne v Cave
Held: The defendant was not bound to purchase the goods.
Harris v Nickerson
Held: The auction sale is an ITT. Proposal only exists when the customer bids.
Contract only exists when the auctioneer accepts the price bids by the customer.
precondition that the car would be in a certain condition had not been met.
Bradbury v Morgan
Hyde v Wrench
Held: By making the counter offer, the plaintiff had rejected the original offer on
June 8 and is no longer able to accept it later. Thus, no contract was formed.
Stevenson Jaques Co v Mclean
Held: There was a contract between them. There was no counter offer but mere
inquiry which should have been answered and not treated as a rejection of the offer.
Lau Brothers & Co v China Pacifoc Navigation Co Ltd
Held: There was no contract between the parties because they are in the state of
mercantile contracts.
Felthouse v Bindley
Held: There was no contract between the uncle and the nephew as no
August 1912.
Dunmore v Alexander
Held: The acceptance had been effectively revoked by the offeree. There was no
contract.
Currie v Misa
Held: A valuable consideration, in the sense of law, may consist of some right
consideration.
Kepong Prospecting Ltd v A.E Scmidt & Marjorie Schmidt
Held: It did not constitute a valid consideration so that Scmidt was entitled to his
Thomas v Thomas
Venkata Chinnaya v Verikatara Maya
Held: She was liable on the promise on the ground that there was a valid
consideration for the promise eventhough it did not move from the brothers.
Kerpa Singh v Bariam Singh
Held: The acceptance of the cheque from the debtors son in full satisfaction
entered into.
Low Kar Yit v Mohd Isa
Lim Keng Seong v Yeo Ah Tee
Daiman Development Sdn Bhd v Matthew Lui Chin Teck
Held: The appellant was bound by the pro forma.
Balfour v Balfour
Held: It was not a legally enforceable agreement because the parties did not intend
minor.
Rajeswary & Anor v Balakrishnan & Ors
Held: The age of majority for entering into a marriage contract differed from other
contracts entered into by a minor and consequently such contracts were not affected
necessaries.
Gov of Malaysia v Gucharan Singh
Held: The contract was void but since education was necessaries, the defendant was
Held: The contract was binding against D because it was for training and his
benefit.
De Francesco v Barnum
Held: The terms were so harsh and unreasonable therefore the contract cannot be
property.
Kesarmal s/o Letchuman Das v Valiappa Chettiar
Held: A transfer executed under the orders of the Sultan, issued in the ominous
presence of two Japanese officers during the Japanese Occupation of Malaya was
invalid. The consent was not freely given and the agreement was voidable at the will