This section is from the book "The Law Of Contracts", by William Herbert Page. Also available from Amazon: Commercial Contracts: A Practical Guide to Deals, Contracts, Agreements and Promises.
From the principles that an offer must be communicated and that an acceptance must be intended as such, it follows that independent cross-offers, though identical in terms, do not amount to a contract.1
An offer by A to sell to B on certain terms and an offer by B to buy from A on the same terms, can not make a contract, if neither is in response to the other.2
 
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