A advertises in the newspaper that he will pay ₹ 1,000 to any one who brings to him his lost son. B without knowing of this reward finds A's lost son and restore him to A. Can B claim for the reward under the provisions

According to Indian Contract Act, 1872, for a valid contract an acceptance never precedes an offer. There can be no acceptance of an offer which is not communicated. Similarly, performance of conditions of an offer without the knowledge of the specific offer, is no acceptance and therefore does not result in a contract. Thus, as held in the case of Lalman Shukla v. Gauri Dutt (1913) , where a servant brought the boy without knowing of the reward, he was held not entitled to reward because he did not know about the offer and therefore could not have accepted it. In this given case since B did not know of the reward, he cannot claim it from A even though he finds A's lost son and brings him to A.