Questions tagged [invitation-to-treat]

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What is the significance of an invitation to treat?

I was just in a café and the menu board listed iced chai for £2.9 (hand-written, dry erase white board). When I went to order they charged me £4.6 on the machine. After posting it and realising what I’d been charged I questioned the price and they…
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Why is a parking fee sign posting bilaterally binding but a menu board/price list is merely a non-committal invitation to treat?

Bob parks in the lot of a shopping mall where a sign is posted “by parking here you enter a contract wherein you agree to pay £10 per hour.” Bob parks in the lot and is, according to LSE, bound by the contract having accepted it. Alice goes to a…
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