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Re:German court orders measles sceptic to pay 100,000 euros by schoen on Friday March 13, 2015 @12:49PM (#9198142)
There also seem to be a number of U.S. cases enforcing unilateral reward offers as contracts; a theme seems to be that they intended to get other people to do work and those people reasonably relied on the offer and did the requested work (most often going out and finding a missing person or item).
Re:German court orders measles sceptic to pay 100,000 euros by icebraining on Friday March 13, 2015 @01:07PM (#9198265)
I believe the doctrine is called Promissory Estoppel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Promissory_estoppel
Re:German court orders measles sceptic to pay 100,000 euros by schoen on Friday March 13, 2015 @01:10PM (#9198278)
Yeah, it looks like that's the theory.