Business Contracts
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Title 1: Classification of the contract
Chapter 1: Pre-contractual negotiations
Chapter 2: Pre-contracts
Section 1: Existence of consent
I: Mistake
A: Fraudulent maneuver or omission
B: Intent to deceive
C: Decisive mistake
2°: Action for damages
III: Duress
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
135. Action for invalidity
1 minute de lecture
Under Articles 1130 and 1139 of the Civil Code, fraud, insofar as it affects the formation of an contract, is punished by nullity of the agreement .
Unlike mistake, fraud does not require that the error it causes concern an essential quality of the thing sold in order to render the contract null and void. With a broader scope of application than mistake, it can be used to punish any type of mistak …
