UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES: HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION OF COMMITMENTS IN FRANCE
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-6794-2022-1-82-97
Abstract
Aim. Describe the effect and characteristics of contractual relations related to the risks of contingencies, analyze the features of the development of the institution of obligations during the pandemic 2020.
Methodology Changes in French civil law relating to the performance of contractual obligations and restrictive measures that led to non-compliance were analyzed. Problems of binding legal relations caused by unforeseen circumstances and arising in France in connection with the spread of coronavirus infection are disclosed. The work used the following methods: analysis and synthesis, legal comparativistics, comparative and logical-legal.
Results. The author concluded that the consequences caused by the 2020 pandemic can be recognized as the basis for exemption from the responsibility of the party to the treaty for its non-compliance; the importance of applying the principles of civil law in such situations was noted.
Research implications. The results of the study make a theoretical contribution to the development of the institution of contractual obligations.
About the Author
D. Gevel
University of Paris (Sorbonne)
France
France
Didier Guevel – Prof., Dean of the Faculty of Law
Indochina Boulevard 12, Paris 75019, French Republic
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