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{{Infobox Court Case<br />
| name = Hyde v Wrench<br />
| court = [[Master of the Rolls|Rolls Court]]<br />
| image = <br />
| date decided = 8 December 1840<br />
| full name = Hyde v Wrench<br />
| citations = [1840] [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/1840/J90.html EWHC Ch J90], [1840] 3 Bea 334, [1840] 49 ER 132<br />
| judges = [[Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale|Lord Langdale]]<br />
| prior actions = <br />
| subsequent actions = <br />
| opinions = <br />
| transcripts =<br />
| keywords = offer, counter-offer<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Hyde v Wrench''''' [1840] [http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/1840/J90.html EWHC Ch J90] is a leading [[English contract law]] case on the issue of counter-offers and their relation to initial [[Offer and acceptance|offer]]s. It contains [[Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale|Lord Langdale]]'s ruling that any counter-offer cancels the original offer.<br />
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==Facts==<br />
Wrench offered to sell his farm in [[Luddenham, Kent]], to Hyde for £1200, an offer which Hyde declined. On 6 June 1840 Wrench wrote to Hyde's agent offering to sell the farm for £1000, stating that it was the final offer and that he would not alter from it.<ref name="bail">{{cite BAILII<br />
|litigants = Hyde v Wrench<br />
|court = EWHC<br />
|division = Ch<br />
|year = 1840<br />
|num = J90<br />
|date = 8 December 1840<br />
|courtname = auto<br />
}}</ref> Hyde offered £950 in his letter by 8 June, and after examining the offer Wrench refused to accept, and informed Hyde of this on 27 June.<ref name="beale1">Beale (2002) p. 227</ref> On the 29th Hyde agreed to buy the farm for £1000 without any additional agreement from Wrench, and after Wrench refused to sell the farm to him he sued for breach of contract.<ref name="beale1"/><br />
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==Judgment==<br />
[[Henry Bickersteth, 1st Baron Langdale|Lord Langdale]]'s judgment read:<br />
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Under the circumstances stated in this bill, I think there exists no valid binding contract between the parties for the purchase of this property. The defendant offered to sell it for £1000, and if that had been at once unconditionally accepted there would undoubtedly have been a perfect binding contract; instead of that, the plaintiff made an offer of his own, to purchase the property for £950, and he thereby rejected the offer previously made by the defendant. I think that it was not afterwards competent for him to revive the proposal of the defendant, by tendering an acceptance of it; and that, therefore, there exists no obligation of any sort between the parties.<ref name="beale1"/><br />
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==See also==<br />
* ''[[Stevenson, Jacques & Co v McLean]]'' [1880] 5 QBD 346<br />
* ''[[Butler Machine Tool Co Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corp (England) Ltd]]'' [1977] EWCA Civ 9<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite book|last=Beale|first=Hugh|author2=Arthur Hartkamp |author3=Hein Kotz |author4=Denis Tallon |title=Cases, Materials and Texts on Contract Law|publisher=Hart Publishing|date=2002}}<br />
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