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See, for example, Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company [1] which is a famous example used in every single textbook.

Mrs Carlill seems like a nice lady, everybody hates people selling quack medicine, so obvious Carlill wins - but setting out explicitly why she wins forms the basis of an important part of modern civil law.

If you're lucky a judge will do it for you, as in Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co (the foundation of contract law) or indeed Bostock v.

To elaborate on your points some more: the basic building blocks of contract law were already well established by the time Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball came about.

Contract law was not invented from scratch to give Mrs Carlill the win, but much of the modern formalisation around the ingredients for a legal contract does date back to that case.

The result of Leonard v Pepsico makes lots of sense read in the context of something like Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company (the classic English contract law case every student learns).

It is as if the Carbolic Smoke Ball Company had tried to blame doctors for diagnosing Carlill with Influenza rather than accepting that, in fact, Carbolic Smoke Balls don't work and so they owe her £100 per their advertisement.

Read as three of the best legal minds essentially /invent/ modern contract law to find a path for how to get Mrs Carlill her money from the scumbags who lied to her about their bogus cure for the flu.

Modern Contract Law mostly comes back to "Carlill v Carbolic Smokeball Co" in the 19th century.

Reminds me of the amusingly named "Carlill v.

If you've ever heard about why people would buy a seemingly worthless thing for $1, or about the peppercorn rents, or wondered why you're told you "agreed" to a bunch of legal stuff you don't care about and haven't actually read - that all comes back to Carlill v Carbolic Smokeball Co.

Search for "Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company" [Carbolic Smoke Balls were advertised as a cure for influenza in the 19th century, you may intuit from the fact that we still don't know how to cure influenza per se that they did not work].