Law of Obligations

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The Law of Obligations is a core area of civil law that governs legal relationships arising from contracts, torts, and other sources of duties between private parties.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf area of private law
branch of civil law
legal doctrine
aimsTo allocate risks between parties
protect reasonable expectations of parties
provide remedies for violation of duties
appliesIn civil law jurisdictions
codifiedIn Brazilian Civil Code
Burgerlijk Wetboek (partly, in the Netherlands)
surface form: Dutch Civil Code

Napoleonic Code
surface form: French Civil Code

German Civil Code
Italian Civil Code
Philippine Civil Code
Civil Code of Poland
surface form: Polish Civil Code

Quebec Civil Code
Russian Civil Code
Swiss Code of Obligations
concerns rights in personam
coreComponentOf civil codes in many countries
defines sources of obligations
distinguishedFrom law of property
rights in rem
fieldOfLaw civil law
includesSubfield contract law
delict law in civil law systems
law of unjust enrichment
quasi-contracts in some traditions
tort law
influencedBy Roman law
regulates breach of obligations
contractual obligations
damages for breach of contract
negotiation and formation of contracts
non-contractual obligations
obligations between private parties
performance of obligations
pre-contractual liability in some legal systems
remedies for breach of obligations
rescission of contracts
restitutionary obligations
specific performance
termination of contracts
tortious obligations
unjust enrichment claims
relatedTo commercial law
consumer protection law
sourcesInclude contracts
negotiorum gestio in civil law
statute
torts
unjust enrichment

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German Civil Code hasPart Law of Obligations