French Civil CodeIn force
Subsection 1: General provisions
Article 1173
The forms required for the purposes of proof or enforceability have no effect on the validity of contracts.
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The forms required for the purposes of proof or enforceability have no effect on the validity of contracts.
The contract is interpreted according to the common intention of the parties rather than by stopping at the literal meaning of its terms. Where this intention cannot be detected, the contract is inter…
The obligation to deliver the thing entails an obligation to preserve it until delivery, taking all the care of a reasonable person.
…nstituted a determining element of the commitment of the parties or of one of them. The contract is maintained when the law repudiates the unwritten clause, or when the purposes of the disregarded rul…
Any clause that deprives the debtor's essential obligation of its substance is deemed unwritten.
The requirement to send several copies is deemed to have been met by electronic means if the written document can be printed by the recipient.
A plea of nullity is not time-barred if it relates to a contract that has not been performed.
Contracts are binding not only on what is expressed in them, but also on all the consequences that equity, usage or the law give them.
Contracts are in principle consensual. By way of exception, the validity of solemn contracts is subject to the observance of forms determined by law, failing which the contract is void, unless it can…
A contract validly formed lapses if one of its essential elements disappears. Where the performance of several contracts is necessary for the performance of the same transaction and one of them disapp…
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