Offeree can accept the offer by giving a promise to the offer or instead of performing the contracted-for act
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Offer
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Proposal by an offeror to do something, provided the offeree does something in return.
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Acceptance
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Occurs when a party to whom an offer has been made agrees to the proposal; in commercial paper, drawee's promise to pay the obligee of a draft when the instrument is due.
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Offerors
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Person who makes the offer.
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Capacity
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Ability to understand.
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Test of Reasonable Person
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Objective legal test used by jurors or judges to determine whether the offeree has shown an intent to contract.
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Counter Offer
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Offeree's response to an offer which modifies it.
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Unilateral Contracts
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Offeror promises something in return for the offeree's performance and indicates that this performance is the way acceptance must be made.
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Offerees
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Person to whom the offer is made.
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Contract
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Defined as agreements between two or more parties that creates obligation; it is enforceable by the courts.
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Mirror Image Rule
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Requires that the terms in the acceptance must exactly match the terms in the offer.