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WITHDRAWAL OFFER [3 records]

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Record 1 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

It appears to me that there is neither principle nor authority for the proposition that there must be an express and actual withdrawal of the offer, or what is called a retraction.(Waddams, 3rd ed., p. 194)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

retrait de l'offre : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 2 2016-01-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Property Law (common law)
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
DEF

The withdrawal of an offer by the offeror so that it can no longer be accepted.("A Concise Dictionary of Law", 1986, p. 319)

French

Domaine(s)
  • PAJLO
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
  • Droit des contrats (common law)
OBS

révocation de l'offre : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).

Spanish

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Record 3 2010-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
  • Criminology
  • Social Psychology
DEF

A state of passive withdrawal from society induced by a sense of inability to attain its norms or to offer resistance to them.

CONT

Identified by Merton as the escapist response ... retreatism occurs when people become practically dropouts of society. They give up all goals and efforts to achieve success because they view it as an impractical, impossible, almost imaginary, and irrational possibility. Merton attributes this mode as the one to which drug addicts, alcoholics, vagrants, and the severely mental ill function because their reactions to not being able to obtain success by legitimate means represses them from society.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
  • Criminologie
  • Psychologie sociale
CONT

Comment l'individu va-t-il s'adapter dans une société caractérisée par l'anomie ? Merton énumère cinq possibilités : conformisme (buts culturels et moyens institutionnels admis), innovation (buts culturels acceptés, moyens institutionnels rejetés), ritualisme (buts culturels rejetés, moyens institutionnels acceptés), retraitisme (buts culturels et moyens institutionnels rejetés), rébellion (buts et moyens rejetés et remplacés).

Spanish

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