Expressing and communicating the will in contracting : a comparative study in the Jordanian civil code and the English law

الملخص EN

By virtue of section 90 of the Jordanian Civil Code No.43 of 1976, a contract is made as soon as an offer coincides with an acceptance, subject to any additional conditions which the law may prescribe.

Section 91 of the Code indicates that offer and acceptance are two conventional used in such expressions contracts.

The former expression is the offer and the latter is the acceptance.

English law, on the other hand, has not specifically defined a contract, but English jurists have defined a contract as an agreement which arises from an offer and an acceptance and which binds the parties.

This paper has discussed how the will is expressed and communicated in contracting under the Jordanian Civil Code as well as in the English law.

It reached the conclusion that here are many similasites and differences between the two laws.