Section 4 of the Indian Contract Act 1872, provides that an offer is complete when it comes to the knowledge of the offeree and that an acceptance is complete as against the offeror when it is put in the course of transmission by the acceptor so as to be out of his power and as against the acceptor when it comes to the knowledge of the offeror. Section 5 provides that the offer can be revoked at any time before the acceptance is dispatched and that an acceptance can be revoked at any time before it comes to the knowledge of the offeror. Section 5 ostensibly departed from the English law as it allowed for the acceptance to be revoked by a more expeditious means than the one used to communicate it. But...

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遗嘱理论家的信箱：对 1872 年印度合同法中合同形成时刻的误解

1872 年印度合同法第 4 条规定，要约在受要约人知晓时是完整的，而当受要约人将其置于传输过程中时，对要约人的承诺是完整的。当涉及到要约人的知识时，出于他的权力并反对接受人。第 5 条规定，可以在发出承诺之前的任何时间撤销要约，并且可以在要约人知道之前的任何时间撤销承诺。第 5 条表面上背离了英国法律，因为它允许以比用于传达接受的方式更快捷的方式撤销接受。但...