VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 45.060
No Time Specified for Acceptance
When an offer does not specify any definite time for acceptance, it expires after a reasonable
time. An acceptance made after this time does not result in a contract.
You must decide what a reasonable time is by considering the purpose and terms of the
proposed contract, business customs, and other surrounding circumstances of which the party to
whom the offer was made knows or has reason to know.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
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