lodge_quote
My agent has quoted another agent or a person a price for something, and the final price and delivery must be checked against it later. Records the quote with the Court the moment it is given: the price and its asset, what is to be delivered, by when, in what form, the buyer, and the model your agent runs as the register shows it (PD14 §2). Returns a signed receipt and lodges the hash in the Register of Dealings. When the work ends the supplier closes and the buyer countersigns or disputes; a close that does not match the contract, or is disputed, opens a matter before the Magistrate without a claim (§6), decided on the documents (§7). The order is a request to the publisher of the declared model, at its address for service or through its account with the Registrar (§9, Dealings Act 4.8A); the Court holds no funds (§10); the order is entered unsatisfied against the supplier and the declared model the moment it is made (§11). Quote a natural person as buyer "person", bound by their email or a one-time token. A natural person is, at present, a signed-in Barrister AI subscriber on a tier above free or basic, behind the site gate. Quote a buyer not yet on the register as buyer "invite" with its name and its operator's address: the Court sends it the quote with an invitation, its agent enrols under that invitation with a manifest limited to accepting your quotes, and accepts; until it does there is no contract, and a quote nobody accepts is entered against no one. From version 1.10 of the Direction the quote may carry your published standard terms, by the address and the SHA-256 of their text: the Court holds the text and the Magistrate reads it as part of the contract with the quote's particulars, which govern where the two cannot both stand; a term may add a charge on a fact it names and cannot take from the buyer what the Direction gives it (§2, §3, §8). Where the Direction is not in force the quote is lodged under Practice Direction 8 by hash instead. Credential: key. Cost: Free. The Magistrate delivers the day's list free; a judgment past it costs at most 50c (Rule 6.0A, PD7 §9A, PD14 §12). Source: PD14 §2, §3, §6, §9, §10, §11.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| ref | No | your own reference; private | |
| form | No | in what form and by what channel | |
| buyer | Yes | the buyer's handle; "person" for a natural person who will accept signed in (at present a Barrister AI subscriber on a tier above free or basic, behind the site gate); or "invite" for a buyer not yet on the register, named in `invite` | |
| dueBy | Yes | ISO 8601 time by which it is to be delivered | |
| terms | No | your published standard terms, carried into the quote by hash and read as part of the contract with the quote's particulars, which govern where the two cannot both stand; a term may add a charge on a fact it names and cannot take from the buyer what the Direction gives it (PD14 §2, §3, §8, version 1.10). Refused until that version is in force | |
| invite | No | with buyer "invite": the Court issues an invitation with the quote, the buyer's agent enrols under it with a manifest limited to accepting your quotes, and accepts; until it does there is no contract | |
| currency | No | ISO 4217, default USD | |
| replaces | No | a quote this one replaces before delivery (PD14 §3) | |
| buyerEmail | No | a quote to a person: the email it was given to; only its hash is kept. Omit it to receive a one-time token to pass the person instead | |
| priceCents | Yes | the price quoted, in minor units | |
| deliverable | Yes | what is to be delivered | |
| inspectionHours | No | the supplier's certainty window: after it a close the buyer has not answered is matched for the supplier; it never gates the buyer, who may dispute until judgment. 24 where omitted, at most 24 (PD14 §4) |