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Land - option to purchase contrasted with contract to purchase - whether mere option granted to non-resident breaches the provisions of Land Sales Act (Cap 137) Section 6.
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\par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 On the 11th June, 1992 the defendant company lodged a Caveat No. 32/284 in the office of the Regis
trar of Titles against the title of a piece of land belonging to the plaintiffs. The caveatable interest claimed was pursuant to an option to purchase the said land granted for valuable consideration to Nadi Bay Beach Corporation and which was purportedly
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\par I say "purportedly exercised" because there is some dispute as to whether the manner in which the option was exercised was effective to make it binding on the plaintiffs but in any event
 the present application is brought by the plaintiffs seeking the discharge of the caveat.
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\par In }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\ai\af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 Hunter v Apgar}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
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\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10969173\charrsid663902 Land Sales Act}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  (Cap. 137). The learned judge said at p. 8 para. 2 of his judgment:

\par 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li720\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 "The }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10969173\charrsid663902 Land Sales Act}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
 ... aims directly at the non-resident. It provides a mechanism to ensure that a non-resident cannot obtain any enforceable right in relat
ion to land until right at the outset, the Minister has had the opportunity of prohibiting any such transaction or imposing terms and conditions for his consent to the same."
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par Counsel for the plaintiffs argues that the grant of an option to purchase land has more than a mere contractual operation }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5774354\charrsid663902 
and confers upon the grantee an}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
 equitable interest in the land. As such, it is, in the words of Palmer J. "an enforceable right in relation to land" and therefore within the prohibited transactions (to adopt a neutral term) contemplated by the Land Sales Act.
\par 
\par Clearly if the defendant company's option is a contract to purchase land and if the defendant company is a non-resident for the purposes of the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10969173\charrsid663902 
Land Sales Act}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 , then, in the absence of any prior consent in writ
ing by the Minister, the option is illegal and unenforceable and in my view incapable of founding or supporting a caveatable interest.
\par 
\par In regard to the first limb counsel for the plaintiffs referred to the definition of a "dealing" in the Land Sales Act w
hich expressly includes an "option to purchase". The particular phrase to be found in Section 6 however is a "contract to purchase ... land" not "any dealing with land" or "... any enforceable right in relation to land".
\par 
\par I would respectfully adopt as correct the description of the nature of an option to purchase to be found in }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 Halsbury's Laws of England}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  (4th edtn) Vol. 42 at paragraph 25 which reads (in part):
\par 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li720\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
"An option to purchase is, in effect, an offer to sell, irrevocable for a stated period ... made
 by the grantor of the option to the grantee is entitled to convert into a concluded contract of purchase on giving the prescribed notice and otherwise complying with the conditions on which the option is made exercisable in any particular case. There mus
t be a binding contract to keep the offer open which requires either a deed or valuable consideration."
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
Clearly then an option to purchase being in law merely an offer to sell unless and until it is properly exercised or accepted, is incapable on its own w
ithout more of giving rise to a concluded "contract to purchase" whatever the subject matter of the option might be.
\par 
\par Accordingly the plaintiff}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid5774354\charrsid663902 '}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
s preliminary argument must fail on this first limb and I hold that an option to purchase land unlike a sale and purchase agreement is not a "contract to purchase ... land" within the contemplation of the phrase in Section 6 of the }{\rtlch\fcs1 
\af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10969173\charrsid663902 Land Sales Act}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  (Cap. 137).
\par 
\par That is not to say however that the exercise or acceptance of an option to purchase land does not convert it
 into an enforceable agreement to purchase the land over which the option was given. It clearly does. Accordingly it is still necessary to consider the applicability of Section 6 of the Land Sales Act at that particular point in time at which there undoub
tedly was made between the parties a contract to purchase land.
\par 
\par In this latter regard it is common ground that the purported exercise of the option by the defendant company as the designated nominee of the grantee of the option was effected by letter dated the 4th of May, 1992.
\par 
\par It is also common ground that the exercise or acceptance of the option by the defendant company was never consented to by the Minister responsible and therefore }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 prima facie}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
 the contract to purchase the land created by the exercise of the option would be illegal, null and void if the defendant company at that date was a non-resident for the purposes of the Land Sales Act.
\par 
\par A non-resident company is defined in negative terms as being "... a company not a resident ..."}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10969173\charrsid663902  }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 and a resident company as defined in the Act may be described as being "a company
 the controlling interest in which is held by an individual who is a Fiji citizen or a ... Fiji resident of not less than 7 years duration."
\par 
\par The evidence in reg}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10969173\charrsid663902 ard to the controlling interest}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 (s) in the defendant company has not been placed before the Cour
t as it could have been since it is a company incorporated in Fiji with a local registered office, and, although a director of the defendant company appears to be a non-resident and the correspondence address of the defendant company is a postal box in Sy
dney, learned counsel for the plaintiffs did not appear to press the point.
\par 
\par Nevertheless even assuming that the defendant company was non-resident for the purposes of Section 6 of the Land Sales Act learned counsel for the company submits that the transaction would be saved by the proviso to the Section which reads:
\par 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li720\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
"Provided that nothing contained in this subsection shall operate to require such consent or prevent a non-resident from making such a contract if the land together with any other land in Fiji 
of such non-resident does not exceed in the aggregate an area of one acre."
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par In this instance the land in question has an area well short of an acre and again there is no evidence that the defendant company has any other land holding in Fiji which would ta
ke it outside the protection of the proviso. Indeed learned counsel for the plaintiffs appeared to concede as much during the course of argument.
\par 
\par In all the circumstances and for the foregoing reasons the preliminary argument must fail on all accounts.
\par 
\par I turn next to the principal substantive ground raised by learned counsel for the plaintiffs and which is:
\par 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li720\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
"Whether or not the option to purchase was validly exercised so as to create a binding contract between the plaintiffs and the defendant company?"
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par In answering the question it is necessary to consider the terms of the option to purchase which was granted by the plaintiffs of which the following relevant terms may be extracted:
\par 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\qc \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 OPTION TO PURCHASE
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li720\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 IN CONSIDERATION}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 
\ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  of the sum of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 ten dollars ($10)}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 
\ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  paid to me by you (the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged) }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
I GRANT}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  to you or your nominee an option to purchase from me the below described property for the sum of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 Forty Thousand dollars ($40,000)}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  upon the following terms and conditions:

\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li1440\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin1440\itap0\pararsid10969173 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 (1) This option m
ay be exercised by you or your nominee by notice in writing addressed to me and delivered personally or posted by pre-paid post to my address shown below at any time within }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 ninety (90)}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  days from the date hereof.
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li720\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 Lot }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 42}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  Street }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 Nadi bay Road}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  District }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 Wailoaloa}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  Municipality }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 NADI}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  Volume }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 18460}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  Folio _ D.P. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 4651}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  Additional items, size etc, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 \'bc acre}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 .
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li720\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 DATED}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  this }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 6th}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  day of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 February 1992}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 .
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li1440\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin1440\itap0\pararsid10969173 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 Owners signature ... (Sgd) ... (Sgd) ......

\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li1440\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin1440\itap0\pararsid10969173 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid10969173\charrsid663902 Address\tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 
\ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 P.O. Box 9556}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \fi720\li2160\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin2160\itap0\pararsid10969173 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 NADI AIRPORT FIJI}{\rtlch\fcs1 
\af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 "
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par From the above it is clear that the grant
ee (i.e. the defendant company's predecessor) was given a 90 day option which began to run from the 6th of February 1992 and was to expire on or about the 6th of May 1992. It is also clear that any exercise of the option, to be valid, had to be made withi
n the 90 day period.
\par 
\par In this latter regard }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8394387\charrsid663902 it }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
is not seriously disputed that by a letter addressed to the plaintiffs and dated 4th May 1992 (i.e. within the 90 days) the grantee of the option gave notice of its nomination of the defendant company as its nominee in terms of Clause (1) of the option.

\par 
\par Further and in a letter of the same date also properly addressed to the plaintiffs, the defendant company as the nominee of the option gave written notice of its exercise of the option to purchase the property f
or the price and on the terms contained in it.
\par 
\par There is also annexed to the opposing affidavit of a director of the defendant company, a photocopy of what is deposed to be a page from a mailing book which bears the following relevant entry under the date: "}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\ul\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 MONDAY 4-5-92}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  Mr. & Mrs. Mudaliar\tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8394387\charrsid663902 \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 FIJI}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8394387\charrsid663902 \tab }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 \tab 80c"
\par 
\par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid8394387\charrsid663902 Learned counsel fo}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
r the plaintiffs submits however that the option was not validly exercised within the 90 day period granted under it ostensibly because by the 6th of May 1
992 (i.e. the expiry date) the plaintiffs had not received either personally, or through the mail, any notice in writing accepting or exercising the option.
\par 
\par With all due regard to learned counsel for the plaintiffs the submission blatantly ignores the clear provisions of Clause (1) of the option to purchase in which the mode of exercise of the option is clearly set out, as follows:
\par 
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li720\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin720\itap0\pararsid15878818 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
"... by notice in writing ... delivered personally or posted by pre-paid post to my address ..."
\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
\par No mention is made in the clause as to the receipt of the notice in the event that it was posted as it could have provided.
\par 
\par I accept at once it is a fundamental principle of the law of contract that acceptance of an offer must be communicated to the offer
or, but by way of an exception to this general principle, the common law recognises what is commonly referred to as the postal rule which says that, if in any given case, the true view of the contract is that the parties contemplated that the postal servi
ce might be used for the purpose of forwarding an acceptance of the offer, so as to constitute a contract even if the letter goes astray and is lost.
\par 
\par In this case there can be no denying that Clause (1) of the option clearly contemplates two acceptable, alternative and different modes of forwarding an acceptance or exercise of the option i.e. by personal delivery or by post.
\par 
\par The defendant company has elected to adopt the second alternative mode of forwarding }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2361895\charrsid663902 its acceptance of the plaintiff}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 
\ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 s' offer and acco
rdingly I find that a binding contract was concluded between the parties upon the posting of time letter of 4th May 1992. Needless to say the plaintiffs do not deny ever receiving the letter and their solicitor's faxed letter of 13th May 1992 (i.e. 7 days
 after the expiry date) does not in my opinion alter the position in any way.
\par 
\par As was eloquently put by Thesiger L.J. in }{\rtlch\fcs1 \ab\ai\af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \b\i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 Household Fire Insurance Ltd v. Grant}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  (1879) LR 4 Exch. D. 216 at p. 223 and 224:
\par 
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"An offeror, if he chooses, may always make the for
mation of the contract which he proposes dependant upon the actual communication to himself of the acceptance. If he trusts to the post he trusts to a means of communication which, as a rule, does not fail, and if no answer to his offer is received by him
, and the matter is of importance to him, he can make inquiries of the person }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2361895\charrsid663902 to whom his offer was addressed.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 
\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902  On the other hand, if the contract is not finally concluded, except in the event of the acceptance actually reaching the offeror, the door would b
e open to the perpetration of much fraud, and, putting aside this consideration, considerable delay in commercial transactions, in which d}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid2361895\charrsid663902 e}{
\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 spatch is, as a rule, of the greatest consequence, would be occasioned, for the acceptor would never be entirely safe
 in acting upon his acceptance until he had received notice that his letter of acceptance had reached its destination."
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\par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\widctlpar\wrapdefault\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid3618370 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 
The application is dismissed with costs to the defendant company to be taxed if not agreed.
\par 
\par (}{\rtlch\fcs1 \ai\af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 Application dismissed.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \fs24\lang2057\langfe1033\langnp2057\insrsid15878818\charrsid663902 )
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