Mark, a newspaper editor, walks into the newsroom and announces to a group of five reporters: "I'll pay a $2,000 bonus to the fi

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Mark, a newspaper editor, walks into the newsroom and announces to a group of five reporters: "I'll pay a $2,000 bonus to the fi

rst reporter who finds definitive evidence that Senator Blue smoked marijuana at the celebrity party last Friday." Anna, the first reporter to produce the evidence, claims her bonus based on:
(a) Unilateral contract
(b) Promissory estoppel
(c) Quasi-contract
(d) Implied contract
(e) Express contract

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lions [1.4K] · Answer 1 · 2021-12-26T01:31:48+03:00

Answer: Unilateral contract

Explanation: A Unilateral contract is a form of contract where a promise is made by one party to another, this contract is normally on a condition that the receiver of the promise in the contract would complete some task(s), in order to receive the promise.

Mark made a promise to his staffs in the newspaper newsroom to be fulfilled, if the task was accomplished by anyone. Of which Anna completed the task and claimed the promise by the editor.