Hansel has been driving her Jaguar X-Type luxury car for many years and has now decided to sell her Jaguar and buy a new one. She puts an advertisement in the newspaper saying “Great condition X-Type Jaguar for sale - £3,000, Contact Number 012100000“. Wolfgang texts her and says that he is willing to buy the car from her for £3,000 and “unless he hears back from her by Saturday he will assume that the car is his”. Hansel is busy and does not respond. On Thursday, Rasputin reads the newspaper and calls Hansel. He offers to buy the car for £2,750. Hansel accepts the offer and sells the car to him. On Saturday Wolfgang finds out that Hansel has sold the car and he becomes furious as he feels he had entered into a contract with Hansel a) Discuss if there has been a contractual relationship between Hansel & Wolfgang b) Discuss the validity of the contract between Hansel & Rasputin
Hansel has been driving her Jaguar X-Type luxury car for many years and has now decided to sell her Jaguar and buy a new one. She puts an advertisement in the newspaper saying “Great condition X-Type Jaguar for sale - £3,000, Contact Number 012100000“. Wolfgang texts her and says that he is willing to buy the car from her for £3,000 and “unless he hears back from her by Saturday he will assume that the car is his”. Hansel is busy and does not respond.
On Thursday, Rasputin reads the newspaper and calls Hansel. He offers to buy the car for £2,750. Hansel accepts the offer and sells the car to him. On Saturday Wolfgang finds out that Hansel has sold the car and he becomes furious as he feels he had entered into a contract with Hansel
a) Discuss if there has been a contractual relationship between Hansel & Wolfgang
b) Discuss the validity of the contract between Hansel & Rasputin
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