4 Acceptance

1. Meaning: the offeree's unqualified assent — the mirror-image of the offer (the Code's rule: the contract formed when the offeree communicates acceptance to the offeror — the Section 493– 505 family's formula);2. Rules of valid acceptance: absolute-and-unqualified (the conditional = counter-offer); in the prescribed-or-usual mode (the silence problem below); before the offer's lapse-or-revocation; by the offeree (and only the offeree — the stranger's "acceptance" nothing); the acceptance's communication (the mental assent insufficient — the dispatch-or-receipt moments);3. Communication effectiveness (the syllabus's four routes): - By performance: the acceptance by acting (the reward cases: the performance IS the acceptance — the general offer's rule); - By promissory acceptance: the return promise communicated (the bilateral contract's standard); - By silence or inaction: the general rule — silence is NOT acceptance (the imposed-bargain bar); the exceptions (the offeror's own waiver-of-communication; theprior-course-of-dealing; the statutory fictions; the "active conduct" reading — the silence-plus- benefit patterns of the practice); - Electronic acceptance: the e-mail-and-click acceptance; the timing (the ETA's receipt rule; the revocation's race — the electronic speed's problems: the instantaneous-communication jurisprudence);4. Revocation and termination of acceptance: the acceptance's dispatch starts the contract (the revocation's window closing — the postal-vs-instantaneous divide); the acceptance's own withdrawal before effectiveness;5. Proposal before the public (the Code's special): the public-offer's acceptance-by- performance rule; the tender-and-reward's completion; the withdrawal of the…