Battle of forms

"Battle of forms" is the name of a type of legal problem which arises when both the buyer and the seller send each other their own documents (frequently a standard contract which the company always uses).

In the USA this sort of issue may be governed by article 2 of the uniform commercial code. Check this podcast by Professor Martin of Western New England School of Law see also case study 2 in International Legal English.

The usual common law solution to this sort of problem is the mirror image rule.."the language of offer and acceptance must be the same." see acceptance