FL · jury_instructions
Fla. Std. Jury Instr. (Contract & Bus.) 416.11
CONTRACT FORMATION — ACCEPTANCE BY SILENCE OR CONDUCT
Ordinarily, if a party does not say or do anything in response to another party’s offer, then [he] [she] [it] has not accepted the offer. However, if (claimant) proves that [both [he] [she] [it] and (defendant) understood silence or inaction to mean that the offer was accepted] [the benefits of the offer were accepted] [(offeree) had a legal duty to speak from a past relationship between (claimant) and (defendant), (claimant)’s and (defendant)’s previous dealings, or (identify other circumstances creating a legal duty to speak)], then there was an acceptance.
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- 2026-08-18
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- 2026-08-18
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