{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-business-commerce-code-2.206","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Business \u0026 Commerce Code § 2.206","heading":"OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE IN FORMATION OF CONTRACT.","body":"(a) Unless otherwise unambiguously indicated by the language or circumstances\n(1) an offer to make a contract shall be construed as inviting acceptance in any manner and by any medium reasonable in the circumstances;\n(2) an order 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 non-conforming goods, but such a shipment of non-conforming 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.\n(b) 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.\nActs 1967, 60th Leg., p. 2343, ch. 785, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1967.","path":["BUSINESS AND COMMERCE CODE","TITLE 1. UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE","CHAPTER 2. SALES","SUBCHAPTER B. FORM, FORMATION AND READJUSTMENT OF CONTRACT"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/BC/htm/BC.2.htm#2.206","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:46:56Z","sha256":"4efa1aa2646d9b2f8d3d7e69eb61c7b6f59089127ca2967c9e0510cc79875fd4","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-business-commerce-code-2.205","next":"us-tx/tex.-business-commerce-code-2.207"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}