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Offer And Acceptance In Jordanian Civil Law And Comparative Law: The Concept And Its Development
Offer And Acceptance In Jordanian Civil Law And Comparative Law: The Concept And Its Development
UAEU Law Journal
Islamic jurisprudence "fiqh" was the first legal system which adopted the doctrine of offer and acceptance. It is thought that the doctrine had been imported to French legal system from Islamic Fiqh through Spain and then transmitted to English law.
As we have seen, all the legal systems which have been studied are in common on the question of determination of offer and acceptance. This determination is based on a chronologically sequential order: the first expression of one party's will is an offer while the second corresponding expression of the other party's will is an acceptance. Nevertheless, all these systems …