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Unit 6: Introduction to contract law - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Contracts between two or more commercial partie, also referred to as business-to-business or B2B-contracts)
    - - Contracts between a businnes and consumer, or B2C-contracts
  - - - governed by their own specific rules, laid down in national civil codes or developed by the courts.
        
        Sales of goods, barter, lease, mandate, donation and the employement contract
    - - Share with sale, barter, etc...
  - - - Contracts in which each party, in exhange, obliges itself towards the first party
    - - Contracts in which a party is not promised anything in return of its performance
- - - - No general doctrine requiring parties to act in good faith in contract law in England and Wales
    - - Civil law systems focus on the behaviour of the parties to a contract mare than in common law systems, which focus on the terms of the contract itself.
- - - - This turns contract law - the rules and principles that govern transactions among parties - into the cement of modern society: it enables market actors to participate in economic and social life
- - - - Contract which are lawfully formed have the binding force of legislation for those who have made them.
    - - Any human action whatsoever which causes harm to another creates an obligation in the person by whose fault it occurred to make reparation for it.
    - - The compensation for harm to people's rights to health and safety, a clean environment, property, their economic interests, or their reputations
  - - - In all cases, the seller must be ordered to pay damages and interest, if the purchaser suffers loss as a result of the failure to deliver at the agreed time
      - It includes the obligation to keep until the delivery
    - - A party is required to take all reasonable measures to acheive a specific result, but is not guaranteed to deliver that result
      - The debtor has to do everything he can to achieve the objective
    - - A party must ensure a specific result is achieved
      - The debtor has to achieve the objective