CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 310
Contract Formation—Acceptance by Silence
Ordinarily, if a person does not say or do anything in response to
another party’s offer, then the person has not accepted the offer.
However, if [name of plaintiff] proves that both [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun/
it] and [name of defendant] understood silence or inaction to mean that
[name of defendant] had accepted [name of plaintiff]’s offer, then there was
an acceptance.
New September 2003; Revised May 2020
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
a3bf5f3580e46638f76c156780d66c4ce54f90c1bd6f01466961332817557459
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