Business Contracts
Auteur : Louis Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Title 1: Classification of the contract
Chapter 1: Pre-contractual negotiations
Section 1: Unilateral promise to sell
Section 2: Unilateral promise to purchase
I: Formation
A: Breach of promise of sale
B: Sale to third party in breach of promise
Section 4: Pre-emption agreement (Pacte de préférence)
Chapter 3: Consent to the 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
99. Lapse of promise
1 minute de lecture
Since the reform of contract law, Article 1186 of the Civil Code stipulates that the absence of one of the essential elements of the agreement, subsequent to its formation, is sanctioned by its expiry/voidance (caducité). According to Article 1187 of the Civil Code, this puts an end to the agreement and may give rise to restitution.
When a bilateral promise of sale has been entered into subject t …
