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Showing 431–440 of 52212 articles for “Art. 1844-1”
If a change in circumstances unforeseeable at the time the contract was concluded makes performance excessively onerous for a party who had not agreed to assume the risk, that party may ask its co-con…
Third parties must respect the legal situation created by the contract. They may rely on it in particular to provide proof of a fact.
The forms required for the purposes of proof or enforceability have no effect on the validity of contracts.
The written word consists of a sequence of letters, characters, numbers or any other signs or symbols with an intelligible meaning, whatever their medium.
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.
When the parties have entered into an apparent contract that conceals a hidden contract, the latter, also known as a counter-letter, is effective between the parties. It is not enforceable against thi…
No one may constitute a title to himself.
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…
The signature required to perfect a legal act identifies its author. It manifests his consent to the obligations arising from that act. When it is affixed by a public official, it confers authenticity…
The community actively consists of the acquests made by the spouses together or separately during the marriage, and arising both from their personal industry and from savings made on the fruits and in…
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