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The Problem Of Offer And Acceptance: A Study Of Implied-In-Fact Contracts In Islamic Law And The Common Law, Aron Zysow
The Problem Of Offer And Acceptance: A Study Of Implied-In-Fact Contracts In Islamic Law And The Common Law, Aron Zysow
Cleveland State Law Review
Every student of Islamic law is familiar with the formation of contract by offer (jdb) and acceptance (qabud). Of the rules of jdb and qabul one can quote Karl Llewellyn's statement about their common law counterparts: they "have been worked over; they have been written over; they have been shaped and rubbed smooth with pumice, they wear the rich deep polish of a thousand classrooms."' The apparent prominence of offer and acceptance in the two legal systems, however, should not mislead one into seeing similarity where there is significant difference. Some of these differences are the subject of this paper. …