<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Keywords </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Contract, offer, invitation to treat, display of goods for sale, shop window, offensive weapons </Td> </Tr> <P> Fisher v Bell (1961) 1 QB 394 is an English contract law case concerning the requirements of offer and acceptance in the formation of a contract . The case established that, where goods are displayed in a shop together with a price label, such display is treated as an invitation to treat by the seller, and not an offer . The offer is instead made when the customer presents the item to the cashier together with payment . Acceptance occurs at the point the cashier takes payment . </P> <P> The Defendant displayed a flick knife in the window of his shop next to a ticket bearing the words "Ejector knife--4s," (i.e. four shillings). Under the Restriction of Offensive Weapons Act 1959, section 1 (1), it was illegal to manufacture, sell, hire, or offer for sale or hire, or lend to any other person, amongst other things, any knife "which has a blade which opens automatically by hand pressure applied to a button, spring or other device in or attached to the handle of the knife". On 14 December 1959, the Claimant, a chief inspector of police force, brought forward information against the Defendant alleging the Defendant has contravened section 1 (1) by offering the flick knife for sale . </P>

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