email contract

[davidslina]

Can a contract be formed and valid if the acceptance is sent to the wrong email ?

[Ethel]

Intention is the key.

For a contract to be legal and valid there has to be certain elements.

If the intention was to form a legally binding contract and the email was a genuine administrative error then maybe.

However, if the other party never received the offer or acceptance of some other vital element of the contract because it went to the wrong email address, probably not.

Sorry for the non-specific answer but your question is not specific enough

[Ethel]

It's going to be a long night, doc. I have a call con at silly o clock with people in America

[davidslina]

Sorry new to this ...I have been trying at this for days but email contract is very vague...On arriving home just before lunch Joe hears a message from a builder withdrawing his offer to build a deck for 10 000. Joe emailed the acceptance 3 days earlier but to the wrong address. Is there a contract ? This is for email law .

[Nhozu]

there is actually no precedent for emails, as yet/to my recently researched knowledge. The only thing that is off help to students at the moment is the EU E-Commerce Regulations.

Otherwise you are going to have to look at other nstanteous communications. Also, back to the acceptence, it must be "communicated" unless conduct substitutes. Consider the policy rules behind the postal rule. Also, there are cases out there that deal with incorrect postal addresses that were held not to be valid...

[Twenty20]

If it was emailed to the wrong address, how do you know it was emailed?

[davidslina]

Many Thanks to all those who tried to help me. I went with the postal rule for half my answer then chose instaneous communication as an argument..