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
A: Mistake as to an essential quality of the thing sold
B: Decisive mistake
C: Excusable mistake
D: Sanctions
II: Fraud
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
126. Mistake
1 minute de lecture
Since the reform of the contract law, mistake is now governed by five articles (Art. 1132 to 1136) of the Civil Code, which essentially reproduce the provisions of former Article 1110 , but add to them.
To justify the cancellation of a contract of sale, a mistake, which can be defined as a discrepancy between belief and reality, must relate to a material quality of the thing sold, be within the sc …