Business Contracts
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Section 1: Transfer of a thing
Section 2: Payment of a price in consideration
Chapter 2: Related contracts
Title 2: Formation of the contract of sale
Title 3: Performance of the contract of sale
Title 4: Revisiting the contract of sale
Title 5: International sale of goods
Part 2: Contract for services
Part 3: Construction contract
Part 4: Subcontracting
Part 5: Agency agreements
7. Components of the contract of sale
1 minute de lecture
Under Article 1582, paragraph 1 of the Civil Code, a contract of sale is “an agreement by which one party undertakes to deliver a thing, and the other to pay for it”. It thus follows that a contract of sale is a bilateral contract ("contrat synallagmatique") concluded for valuable consideration: bilateral, because, as stipulated in new Article 1106 , “the contracting parties are mutually obliged t …