Optionee

An option contractor simply optionis defined as "a promise which meets the requirements for the formation of a contract and limits the promisor's power to revoke an offer. An option contract is a type of contract that protects an offeree from an offeror's ability to revoke their offer to engage in a contract.

Consideration for the option contract is still required as it is still a form of contract, cf. Typically, an offeree can provide consideration for the option contract by optionee money for the contract or by providing value in some optionee form such as by rendering other performance or forbearance.

See consideration for more optionee. An option is the right to convey a piece of property. The person granting the option is called the optionor [1] or more usually, the grantor and the person who has the benefit of the option is called the optionee or more usually, the beneficiary.

Because options amount to dispositions of future property, in common law countries they are normally subject to the rule against perpetuities and must be exercised within the time limits prescribed by law. In relation to certain types of asset principally landin many countries an option must be registered in order to be binding on a third party.

The option contract provides an important role in unilateral contracts. In unilateral contracts, the promisor seeks acceptance by performance from the promisee. In this scenario, optionee classical contract view was that a contract is not formed until the performance that the promisor seeks is completely performed. This is because the consideration for the contract was the performance of the promisee. Once the promisee performed completely, consideration is satisfied and a contract is formed and only the promisor is bound to his promise.

A problem arises with unilateral contracts because of the late formation of the contract. With classical optionee contracts, a promisor can revoke his offer for the contract at any point prior to the promisee's complete performance.

The promisor has maximum protection and the promisee has maximum risk in this scenario. An option contract can provide some security to the promisee in the above scenario. The promisor impliedly promises not to revoke the offer and the promisee impliedly promises to furnish complete performance, but as optionee name suggests, the promisee still retains the "option" of not completing performance.

The consideration for this option contract is discussed in comment d of the above cited section. Basically, the consideration is provided by the promisee's beginning of performance. Case law differs from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but an option contract can either be implicitly created instantaneously at the beginning of performance the Restatement view or after some "substantial performance.

It has been hypothesized that option contracts could help allow free market roads to be constructed without resorting to eminent domainas the road company could make option contracts with many landowners, and eventually consummate the purchase of parcels comprising the contiguous route needed to build the road. It is a general principle of contract law that an offer cannot be assigned by the recipient of the optionee to another party.

However, an option contract can be sold unless it provides otherwiseallowing the buyer of the option to step into the shoes of the original offeree and accept the offer to which the option pertains. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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