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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>70423</law_id><section_number>8.2-206</section_number><catch_line>Offer and acceptance in formation of contract</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="8.2">Commercial Code - Sales</unit><unit label="part" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2">Form, Formation and Readjustment of Contract</unit></structure><text>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances <a id="paragraph-254141" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-206/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1a" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">a.</span> an offer to make a <span class="dictionary">contract</span> shall be construed as inviting acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable in the circumstances; <a id="paragraph-254142" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-206/#1a"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="1b" class="indent-1"><p><span class="prefix-number">b.</span> an <span class="dictionary">order</span> or other offer to buy goods for prompt or current shipment shall be construed as inviting acceptance either by a prompt promise to ship or by the prompt or current shipment of conforming or nonconforming goods, but such a shipment of nonconforming goods does not constitute an acceptance if the seller seasonably notifies the buyer that the shipment is offered only as an accommodation to the buyer. <a id="paragraph-254143" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-206/#1b"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> Where the beginning of a requested performance is a reasonable mode of acceptance an offeror who is not notified of acceptance within a reasonable time may treat the offer as having lapsed before acceptance. <a id="paragraph-254144" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/8.2-206/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1964, c. 219.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
