Postal Rule of Acceptance

Four main justifications of Postal Acceptance Rule i. Ad infinitum vindication Postal rule had existed almost for 200 years and the post had been creating problems for people which the courts atomic number 18 obliged to solve them logically. Why it had been creating so many problems for people and that we allow for be discussing later on. For now lets look at the four main justifications for postal rule of acceptance. It came from Treitel and he believes that the four main justifications are for the creation of postal rule.First of all, the first justification is the Ad Infinitum justification where its main rationale is that acceptance by post has to be valid on account because if there were no postings which mean there is no contract formed. Based on the case of Adam v Lindsell, the suspect actually mail the commotion of selling woollen to plaintiff and the plaintiff was requested on mailing back to the defendant. Unfortunately there was an error in the offered price and plain tiff did not receive it.We can thus conclude that the defendant had not receive the letter of acceptance and therefore the defendant assume that the plaintiff did not privation to accept his offer so he sold the wool to a third party. There was actually a contract exists before the sale of the wool because acceptance made right after the mail is be mailed. Therefore, the defendant was liable in breach of contract. In this case, it might go on ad infinitum because once mail is being posted which means that acceptance is being made.Of course, there is a high level of uncertainty because of the distance between the both parties causing them difficulties for the formation of contract. ii. Symbolic Act Justification In this justification, rationale being that the offeror must be considered as continually fashioning (the offer) until he has brought to the knowledge of the person to whom it made that it is withdraw. Based on the case of Brogden v Directors of Metropolitan Railway Co, t here was a contract sent by the defendant (Directors of Metropolitan Railway) to the plaintiff (Brogden) regarding the contract.The plaintiff agreed the contract by signing it and return to the defendant. The defendant then filled in the blanks without informing the plaintiff most the acceptance. Since there is no acceptance being communicated between the both parties, the plaintiff did not supply the company with coals. Thus, there was subsequently a dispute arose that whether the indite agreement was valid. Although the action of communication of acceptance had not been showed clearly, in fact the written agreement was valid despite no acceptance being informed.Reason being both parties had already agreed on the terms of the contract without any objections. In the real world, we do not see an offeror consistently making an offer to people, and subsequently this justification seems to be attempting to affect a useful acceptance rule rather than providing any real rationale for th e postal rule. 1 . The Law of Contract, 11th Edition, 2003 page 25 2 . Stevenson P. J, 2010 3 . (1818) 1 B&A 681 4 . Henthorn v Fraser (1892) 2 Ch. 27 5 . Stevenson P. J, 2010