French Civil CodeIn force
Chapter I: Introductory provisions
Article 1101
A contract is an agreement between two or more persons to create, modify, transfer or extinguish obligations.
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A contract is an agreement between two or more persons to create, modify, transfer or extinguish obligations.
The contract is commutative when each of the parties undertakes to procure for the other a benefit which is regarded as equivalent to that which he receives. It is random when the parties agree to mak…
An OTC contract is one in which the stipulations are negotiable between the parties.An adhesion contract is one that includes a set of non-negotiable clauses, determined in advance by one of the parti…
Silence does not constitute acceptance, unless otherwise required by law, custom, business relations or particular circumstances.
Violence is a ground for nullity whether it is perpetrated by a party or by a third party.
Incapacity to contract is a cause of relative nullity.
It may not be retracted before the expiry of the period set by its author or, failing that, the end of a reasonable period. The withdrawal of the offer in breach of this prohibition prevents the concl…
…are determined, and for the formation of which only the consent of the beneficiary is lacking. Revocation of the promise during the time allowed to the beneficiary to opt does not prevent the formati…
…as to the reason for a liberality, in the absence of which its author would not have disposed, is a cause of nullity.
An error as to value, whereby a contracting party, without being mistaken as to the essential qualities of the service, merely makes an inaccurate economic assessment of it, is not a ground for nullit…
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