This issue is an important one due to the proliferation of exclusion clauses that accompany tickets in everyday transactions.
The case of Parker v. The South Eastern Railway Co (1877) 2 CPD 416 illustrates restrictions on this concept: The test of whether a document fits within the description of a ticket is an objective test, that is, whether a reasonable person in the position of the ticket-holder would perceive it to be contractual in nature.
For instance, if exclusion clauses accompany a docket, it may be held that it is not contractual in nature since it is just a receipt.
Furthermore, Interfoto Picture Library Ltd v. Stiletto Visual Programmes Ltd [1989] 1 QB 433 held that if a party wishes to incorporate onerous terms into a document that is to be just accepted by the other party, reasonable notice must be given to make it a term of the contract.
Other ticket cases include: This article relating to law in the United Kingdom, or its constituent jurisdictions, is a stub.