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
D: Sanctions
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
131. Fraud
1 minute de lecture
Sometimes referred to as a civil offense, fraud, like criminal offenses, is made up of a material element - deception or lies - and a moral element - the intention to deceive. As one of the main types of defect in consent, it is similar to mistake, in the sense that it constitutes an “induced mistake”, and to duress, in the sense that it is a morally reprehensible act. Since the reform of the law …