French Consumer Law
Auteurs : Louis Vogel, Joseph Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Title 1: Advertising
Chapter 1: Unfair commercial practices
Section 1: Abuse of weakness
Section 2: Sales with bonuses
Section 3: Tied sales
Section 4: Forced sales
I: General principle of prohibition of lotteries
A: Legal regime
B: Criteria of lawfulness
1°: Reference consumer
2°: Successive modifications of the sanctions provided for in Article L. 121-20
3°: Criminal sanctions
i): Tort liability
ii): Contractual liability
iv): Action by consumer associations
b): Liability of bailiff
Title 3: Regulated commercial practices
Part 2: Sale
Part 3: After Sale
267. Quasi-contractual liability
1 minute de lecture
After a long period of hesitation between tort liability and contractual liability, case law now retains the quasi-contractual liability of the organizer of advertising lotteries under Article 1300 (former Article 1371) of the Civil Code . By two judgments of 6 September 2002, handed down by the Mixed Chamber, the Court of Cassation established the principle that the organizer of a lottery who ann …
