Prawo właściwe dla zobowiązań niewynikających z czynności prawnych w okresie Polskiej Rzeczpospolitej Ludowej

In the communist era, the law applicable to non-contractual obligations was regulated by two acts — the Private International Law of 1926 and the Private International Law of 1965, which dealt with the issue of the law applicable to obligations not arising out of legal action. The object of this study is to present the respective regulations in terms of determining this law. In particular, the author focuses on the analysis of two main connecting factors used at that time to determine the law applicable to non-contractual obligations, namely, the law of the place where the act giving rise to the non-contractual obligation was performed and the law of domicile. In the conclusion of the article the author assesses the solutions presented above from the point of view of both Polish and foreign doctrine.

The Obligation to Conduct Negotiations in Good Faith on the Conclusion of a Contract as an Element of the Content of a Pre-Contractual Legal Relationship

The article discusses the issue of the content of the pre-contractual legal relationship and the role of good faith in it. As a result of the analysis, it is concluded that the content of the pre-contractual legal relationship includes only one pre-contractual obligation – to negotiate in good faith. It should be considered as a duty that includes separate elements – manifestations of the general obligation of the parties to behave in good faith, arising at the pre-contractual stage, or, in other words, requirements for good behavior. These elements include the obligation to inform; the obligation not to interrupt negotiations without giving reasons if the other party relied on the person's intention to conclude a contract; the obligation to keep the information received in confidentiality if the party knows that the information is secret and cannot be used by third parties. An attempt has been made to prove that the meaning of good faith is not in addition to the pre-contractual obligation, but in its specification.

Base estoppel and its impact on modifying the binding force of the contract

The contract is the Sharia of the Contracting Party as a rule that does not govern the contract only upon formation, but also upon execution, since the terms of the contract are transformed, after its formation, into a law that imposes itself, and its sanctity cannot be violated. That is, when the contract is valid and enforceable, it must be executed according to what it contains and in accordance with good faith and trust between people, and this is called the principle of binding force of the contract. Whenever the contract is binding on both parties, one of the parties cannot be the only one to rescind or amend it. The mandatory limits of the contract are not limited to what the contracting parties have agreed only, but include all of its requirements in accordance with legislative and customary rules, and what justice requires, and what is imposed by the nature of the full-time obligation of the contract. When executing the contract, the extent of the debtor’s commitment to the contract is measured in the manner in which it is implemented, and his agreement with the requirements of the contract, that is, the closer the method of implementation is with the requirements of the contract, the debtor is considered on the right path in fulfillment, and the more the method of implementation is far from the requirements of the contract, the debtor is considered in breach of his contractual obligations. Since the debtor may deviate from the prescribed path in some cases due to the difficulty of implementing the obligation on the one hand, and the difficulty of harmonizing the circumstances and methods of implementation on the other hand, the law allowed the creditor to object to the debtor’s behavior whenever he saw it as different from the contract based on the binding force of the contract. But this right granted to the creditor is not an absolute right. Rather, it is restricted by his act or statement that revealed to the debtor the safety of his conduct in the implementation of the contract, meaning that despite the recognition of the right to object to the creditor, the creditor may be suspended by what was previously issued by him, i.e. closed The door of objection to it, and this is called the rule of judgment closure that we have chosen as the subject of our study. We deal with it by research and study to show the limits of this rule, and its impact on modifying the binding force of the contract, whether by making mandatory certain clauses in the contract or even creating new clauses, or by stripping a contractual obligation of its binding force.

Company’s Corporate Legal Capacity: Problems of the Ultra Vires Rule, Modern Shift and Position of Bangladesh

The traditional ultra vires rule has been applied to restrict the corporate capacity of an incorporated entity. It is a ‘legal person’ that can function only within the defined objects of its constitution. Long experience of applying this rule shows that the doctrine served no positive purpose (e.g. limiting the company’s transactions to some precise line of the stated objectives in its constitution), rather it produced many unsatisfactory states of affairs and difficulties like operating as a fetter on company’s new business opportunities, risk of company’s transaction being treated as void in court’s proceedings interpreting it “outside the company’s constitution” and is unenforceable. Thus, the parties in a corporate transaction are always at risk to suffer irremediable loss if at any stage either of the parties renounces the contractual obligation. For the said and many other unsatisfactory results of the traditional ultra vires rule, many developed countries have either completely abolished it from their company law or greatly limited its applications to some statutorily defined cases only. But Bangladesh still retained the century’s old outmoded tradition, even though recently the Companies (Amendment) Act 2020 passed. In the array of the vast literature on this particular issue and a great number of legislative reform proposals in many other countries and instances of their legislative reforms, it is not understandable in the legislative policy of Bangladesh for retaining it. This article analyses the historical factors behind applying this rule, the irrationality of those considerations, and its present time irrelevance.

Part I Legal and Practical Challenges to Traditional Trade Finance, 2 The Letter of Credit as a Contract

This chapter considers the relationships created by the issue of a letter of credit. In particular, it focuses on the relationship between the issuer and/or confirmer of the credit on the one hand, and the seller of the goods on the other. Although the letter of credit is typically referred to as creating a contractual obligation between these parties, and that characterisation is rarely disputed, a closer analysis from a common law perspective reveals that some elements for contract formation appear to be absent. The chapter re-examines this debate in the light of recent developments in the law. It concludes that the relationship is indeed contractual, albeit that some of the contractual prerequisites may be satisfied in an unorthodox way.

Convergence of the Contract Law of Ukraine and EU Member States

The purpose of the article is to analyse the modern contract law of Ukraine, which requires convergence with the provisions of the contract law of the countries of the European Community. The paper uses general scientific and special legal methods of scientific knowledge of private-law relations. The leading method of investigation of this issue is the modelling technique. In general, the issues of contractual regulation of private-law relations both in European Union law and in Ukraine are primarily addressed in terms of enhancing the role of the contract and shifting the emphasis from the statutory to individual regulation; strengthening the tendencies of the better legal protection of the interests of the weak side of the contractual obligation. Attention is drawn to the necessity of the introduction of a European methodology of binding law, which is reflected in the need for a combination of new and already known effective legal structures.

13. Breach of contract

Poole’s Casebook on Contract Law provides a comprehensive selection of case law that addresses all aspects of the subject encountered on undergraduate courses. The performance obligations of the parties to a contract are determined by contractual terms. A breach of contract arises when a party fails to fully comply with a performance obligation, without lawful excuse. If a contractual obligation is strict, failure to comply constitutes a breach of contract regardless of fault. Subject to an enforceable exemption clause, the injured party is entitled to damages to compensate for the loss suffered as a result of the breach. This chapter focuses on breach of contract and its legal consequences. It discusses the election on repudiatory breach; termination or affirmation of a contract; the classification of terms: conditions, warranties, and innominate or intermediate terms; the ‘entire obligation rule’; and anticipatory breach.

13. Breach of contract

Course-focused and comprehensive, Poole’s Textbook on Contract Law provides an accessible overview of the key areas on the law curriculum. There are four ways to discharge a contract: by performance, agreement, frustration, or breach. The standard of performance required in relation to each contractual obligation needs to be identified because a failure to perform to the required standard constitutes a breach. In the absence of lawful excuse, a breach of contract arises if a party either fails or refuses to perform a contractual obligation imposed on that party by the terms of the contract or performs a contractual obligation in a defective manner. While every breach of contract will give rise to a right to claim damages, the contract will remain in force unless the breach constitutes a repudiatory breach. The chapter examines the types of repudiatory breaches and the election to terminate or affirm, together with an assessment of the law governing the identification of a repudiatory breach and the consequences of terminating when the breach is not in fact repudiatory. It also examines the options available to the non-breaching party when an anticipatory breach occurs.

KAUZA UGOVORNE OBAVEZE

The paper discusses the impact of the reasons for the commitment on the validity of the contract. Due to the fact that most institutes of modern law find their origin in Roman law, the paper begins by presenting the role of the cause of obligation in Roman law. The author then analyzes the causal and anti-causal views of legal theory, all in order to emphasize the fact that the cause of the contractual obligation is theoretically a very controversial institute of the law of obligations. The last part of the paper is dedicated to the cause of contractual obligation in our contract law. Starting from the fact that the Law on Obligations accepts with its provisions the subjective and objective conception of the cause of the contractual obligation, the author points out that the objective conception of the cause of the contractual obligation, accepted through art. 51. ZOO, is a redundant institute that has no greater practical significance and which is successfully replaced by other institutes of law of obligations.