Read Assertion (A) and Reason (R) and with the help to codes given below, point out the correct explanation : Assertion (A) : An acceptance is to a proposal what a lighted match is to a train of gunpowder. Reason (R) : Acceptance converts the offer into a promise and then it is late to remove.
Both A and R are true and R is good explanation of A.
Assertion (A) is true. The simile is Sir William Anson’s: ‘acceptance is to an offer what a lighted match is to a train of gunpowder’ – it produces something which cannot be recalled or undone.
Reason (R) is true. Under Section 2(b) of the Indian Contract Act, 1872, a proposal when accepted becomes a promise; once acceptance is complete, the proposal can no longer be revoked (Section 5 permits revocation only before acceptance is complete as against the proposer).
R explains A: the reason the acceptance is like a lighted match is precisely that it converts the offer into a binding promise, after which it is too late to withdraw.
Hence, the answer is Both A and R are true and R is good explanation of A.
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