Two Issues Of Reward-offering Advertisement

Reword-offering advertisement is a very common thing in everyday life. It canimprove the efficiency of individuals, the whole society and even help to acceleratethe scientific development.Unfortunately there are a lot of academic debates on thenature of reword-offering advertisement. The uncertainty of the natures ofreword-offering advertisement will directly influence the fulfillment of relatedperson’s rights. This article will analyze, upon the basic theory, the differencesbetween common law system and civil law system on some key issues. This articletries to give some meaningful ideas of the nature of reward-offering advertisementand the application of lien in reward-offering advertisement.Chapter1of this article analyses the definition, patterns and importance ofreward-offering advertisement, which are the foundation of this article.Reward-offering advertisement is a method by which the advertiser offers the rewardsto the person who performs the requirements in the advertisement and advertiser willget back some certain interests; this is the important feature of the reward-offeringadvertisement. The importance of the reward-offering advertisement is that it can helpindividuals to break the limitation of his ability and help people to utilize andintegrate the resources in the society.Chapter2of this article will focus on the differences of contracts betweencommon law and civil law systems. In common law system contract can be dividedinto two parts: one is the unilateral contract and the other is bilateral contract. The former one is an exchange between promise and activity and the latter one is anexchange between promises; consideration is the key factor to make a contract havelegal binding effects. In contrary, civil law system focuses on the people’s wills whichmake a contract concluded and be valid. By comparisons this article concludes thatthe unilateral contract in common law system is similar to the unilateral legal act incivil law system; therefore, in our law system, reward-offering advertisement seemsto be a unilateral legal act rather than a contract.Chapter3of this article will interpret the application of article230of PRCProperty Law in the situation of reward-offering advertisement. The lien has twodivided functions, of which one is the right of defense and the other is priority right tobe repaid. Through the methods of comparison of laws, the article arrives aconclusion that the application of priority right to be repaid in article230in PRCProperty Law should be limited, which only can be used when the seizor of theproperty has made value-keeping or value-adding work on that property; meanwhile,this requirement has been satisfied in the situation of reward-offering advertisement.