The time of concluding a contract in department stores

Subject Areas : Journal of Law and Politics

Soudeh Nategh Noori ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2015-07-13 Accepted : 2015-07-13 Published : 2008-06-21

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Abstract :

This article is about department stores-huge, comfortable and really useful shops which startedtheir life at the beginning of the 20th century and nowadays have become an inevitable part ofpeople’s life.This kind of sale has numerous distinctions from local stores. First of all, the seller displaysthe goods he wants to sell on the shelves of the store. On the other hand, the buyer collects hisneeds while he is walking around the shopping area. She can choose an article without beingbound to buy it. Finally, she comes near the cash desk and puts the things on the desk. The sellerpasses them across the cash register, and announces the price. The buyer pays the money andreceives the receipt.The main question is which one of these acts makes the offer? And when does the contractconclude?In this research, it has been attempted to talk about the time of concluding the contract andpassing the ownership. Although it seems that the best one would be the one resultingconcluding the contract across the cash desk, but all the possible suspensions in the articlehave been stated.