452 So. 2d 384 - Eames v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2013
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 117 So. 2d 550 - William A. Berbusse, Jr., Inc. v. North Broward Hosp. Dist. · Bromley v. McHugh · Olson v. Beacham · 341 So. 2d 85 - Foster v. Tullos
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“In the common law, it is well settled that a request for bids for the sale of an object is not an offer obliging the one extending the invitation to accept the highest of any of the bids. These requests for bids are considered only as invitations to others to make offers. 17 C.J.S. Contracts, § 48 (1963); William A. Berbusse, Jr., Inc. v. North Broward Hospital District, 117 So.2d 550 (Fla. App. 2 Cir.1960). This rule is true even where the call for bids does not reserve the right to reject any and all bids, unless the language explicitly states otherwise. Olson v. Beacham, 102 N.W.2d 125 (N.D.1960); Bromley v. McHugh, 122 Wash. 361 , 210 P. 809 (1922). The aforementioned rule of law is basically the same in Louisiana. For any proposal to qualify as an offer, it must reflect the intent of the author to give to the other party the right to concluding the contract by assent. Where this intent is not present, the proposal cannot be considered an offer, but rather an invitation to negotiate or an expression of willingness to receive offers from others. LSA-C.C.Art. 1803; LSA-C.C.Art. 1813; 1 S. Litvinoff, La.Civil Law Treatise, Obligations, § 130 (1969); Foster v. Tullos, 341 So.2d 85 (La.App. 3 Cir.1976). . . . . . For a proposal to constitute an offer, it must firmly reflect the intent of the author to enter into a contract. A. Levasseur, Precis In Conventional Obligations, A Civil Code Analysis (1980). "Unequivocal words, expressive of mere intent, do not make an obligation." ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Unequivocal words, expressive of mere intent, do not make an obligation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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