Legal Question in Business Law in California

Is a purchase order, executed in california, a legal and binding contract, if the issuer took it upon themselves to have part of the original PO fulfilled by a different company??


Asked on 1/19/16, 1:34 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Bryan Whipple Bryan R. R. Whipple, Attorney at Law

No; a purchase order is likely to be only an offer, which ripens into a contract upon acceptance by the seller. In unusual circumstances, a different answer might be required, but in the most general case a contract requires an offer and a (communicated) acceptance by the other party, the "offeree." I hope this explanation covers your situation; it isn't entirely clear, absent more facts, exactly what happened here.

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Answered on 1/19/16, 2:19 pm


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