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Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 311
Contract
A contract is an agreement between two or more people or parties. A contract consists of
an offer, an acceptance of that offer, and consideration. If one of these three items is missing,
then there is no contract.
An offer is a proposal to enter into a contract and has conditions or terms stated in the
offer. An acceptance of that offer is an agreement to the conditions or terms stated in the offer. [If
the [person/business/corporation] to [whom/which] an offer was made changes the offer in any
way, then that is not an acceptance of the offer but rather a counteroffer. Unless the counteroffer
is accepted, no contract has been made.]
Consideration is a benefit received or something that is given up in order to form the
contract. Consideration does not have to be money, but it must be something of value.
Consideration is required in order for the contract to be enforced.
A contract may be verbal or in writing.
History
Proposed Mississippi Plain Language Model Jury Instructions - Civil 311 (current as of February 17, 2012). Submitted in 2012 by the Mississippi Model Jury Instructions Commission (created by the Supreme Court of Mississippi by order of December 30, 2008) and published by the Court on courts.ms.gov. The Court states that these model jury instructions have not been adopted or approved by the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-25
- Edition
- 2026-09-25
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