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In Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1892] 2 QB 484, the court ruled:

In Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co the Court of Appeal held that an offer may be made to the world at large, so "An offer need not be made to an ascertained person"; anyone…

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In Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co [1892] 2 QB 484, the court ruled:

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In Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co the Court of Appeal held that an offer may be made to the world at large, so "An offer need not be made to an ascertained person"; anyone who knows of it and performs its conditions accepts it. The advertised reward was treated as a binding offer, not a mere puff or a bare promise. The same principle appears in section 8 of the Indian Contract Act, under which performance of the conditions of a proposal is an acceptance of it.

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