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1. Withholding Performance Withholding Performance in Europe Withholding Performance (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Withholding performance", as a remedy for non-performance of a contractual obligation, means that one party to a contract may decline to render due [...]...
2. Fundamental Non-performance Fundamental Non-performance in Europe Fundamental Non-performance (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: A non-performance of a contractual obligation is fundamental if (a) it substantially deprives the creditor of what the creditor was entitled to expect [...]...
3. Non-performance Non-performance in Europe Non-performance (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Non-performance", in relation to an obligation, means any failure to perform the obligation, whether or not excused. It includes delayed performance and defective [...]...
4. Dependent Personal Security Dependent Personal Security in Europe Dependent Personal Security (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: A "dependent personal security" is an obligation by a security provider which is assumed in favour of a creditor in order to...
5. Withdraw Withdraw in Europe Withdraw (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: A right to "withdraw" from a contract or other juridical act is a right, exercisable only within a limited period, to terminate the legal relationship arising...
6. Distributorship Distributorship in Europe Distributorship (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: A "distributorship" is the legal relationship arising from a distribution contract. Resources See Also Private Law...
7. Obligation Obligation in Europe Obligation (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: An obligation is a duty to perform which one party to a legal relationship, the debtor, owes to another party, the creditor. Resources See Also Private...
8. Distribution Contract Distribution Contract in Europe Distribution Contract (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: A "distribution contract" is a contract under which one party, the supplier, agrees to supply the other party, the distributor, with products on a...
9. Reciprocal Reciprocal in Europe Reciprocal (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: An obligation is reciprocal in relation to another obligation if (a) performance of the obligation is due in exchange for performance of the other obligation; (b)...
10. Substitution of Debtor Substitution of Debtor in Europe Substitution of Debtor (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Substitution" of a debtor is the process whereby, with the agreement of the creditor, a third party is substituted completely or incompletely...
11. Loan Contract Loan Contract in Europe Loan Contract (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: A loan contract is a contract by which one party, the lender, is obliged to provide the other party, the borrower, with credit of...
12. Invalid Invalid in Europe Invalid (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Invalid" in relation to a juridical act or legal relationship means that the act or relationship is void or has been avoided. Resources See Also Private...
13. Tacit Prolongation Tacit Prolongation in Europe Tacit Prolongation (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Tacit prolongation" is the process whereby, when a contract provides for continuous or repeated performance of obligations for a definite period and the [...]...
14. Valid Valid in Europe Valid (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Valid", in relation to a juridical act or legal relationship, means that the act or relationship is not void and has not been avoided. Resources See...
15. Global Security Global Security in Europe Global Security (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: A "global security" is a security which is assumed in order to secure all the debtor's obligations towards the creditor or the debit balance...
16. Contractual Obligation Contractual Obligation in Europe Contractual Obligation (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: A "contractual obligation" is an obligation which arises from a contract, whether from an express term or an implied term or by operation of...
17. Violating the Attorney-client Relationship Violating the Attorney-client Relationship in Europe Violating the Attorney-client Relationship in Germany Provisions relating to violating the attorney-client relationship in the German Criminal Code [1]: This criminal issue is covered by Chapter Thirty, under the heading "Offences [...]...
18. Transfer of Contractual Position Transfer of Contractual Position in Europe Transfer of Contractual Position (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Transfer of contractual position" is the process whereby, with the agreement of all three parties, a new party replaces an...
19. Claim to Performance in Contractual Law The Claim to Performance in Contractual LawContentsThe Claim to Performance in Contractual LawIn the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL)The issueThe basic rule governing monetary paymentsExceptionsNon-monetary obligationsThe United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods formulaThe Principles of European Contract Law formula...
20. Unfair Contractual Conditions Unfair Contractual ConditionsContentsUnfair Contractual ConditionsEuropean Contract LawGeneral remarksConsumer protectionEuropean Community LawIn the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL) European Contract Law General remarks Standard contracts are the result of modern mass contracting. Standard contracts make individual contract negotiations superfluous, thereby reducing transaction costs. They frequently...
21. Condition Condition in Europe Definition of Condition A provision which makes the existence of a right dependent on the happening of an event ; the right is then conditional, as opposed to an absolute rightA true condition is where the event on which the existence of...
22. Contract Contract in Europe Definition of Contract An agreement enforceable at law. An essential feature of contract is a promise by one party to another, or by two parties to one another, to do or forbear from doing certain specified acts. (according to the definition of...
23. Costs Costs in Europe Definition of Costs (1) As between solicitor and client. The charges which a solicitor i entitled tot make and recover froim the client as his remuneration for professional services, subject to taxation to protect the client. (2) As between party and party....
24. Court Court in Europe Definition of Court (1) A place where justice is administered; (2) the Judge or Judges who sit in a Court ; and (3) an aggregate of separate Courts or Judges, as the Supreme Court of Judicature Browse You might be interested in...
25. Brezhnev Doctrine Brezhnev Doctrine in Europe Description of Brezhnev Doctrine The Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union describes brezhnev doctrine in the following terms: [1] Three months after the 'Prague Spring' was crushed by the Soviet military in 1968, Leonid Brezhnev declared the [...]...
26. Federalism Federalism in Europe Description of Federalism The Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union describes federalism in the following terms: [1] To opponents of a European superstate, federalism denotes a political system dominated by supranational bodies or by the majority will of European [...]...
27. High Authority High Authority in Europe Description of High Authority The Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union describes high authority in the following terms: [1] Under the Treaty of Paris, the High Authority of the ECSC was responsible for creating and supervising the European common market in...
28. Censure Censure in Europe Description of Censure The Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union describes censure in the following terms: [1] Under the Treaty of Rome, the European Parliament has the right to force the Commission to resign en bloc on a motion of censure carried...
29. Referendum Party Referendum Party in Europe Description of Referendum Party The Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union describes referendum party in the following terms: [1] Uniquely in British electoral history, Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum Partyran in the 1997 general election on the platform [...]...
30. Committees Committees in Europe Description of Economic and Financial Committee The Concise Encyclopedia of the European Union describes economic and financial committee in the following terms: [1] With the launch of the single currency in 1999, the influential Monetary Committee (consisting of two [...]...
31. Compensation Compensation in Europe Compensation (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Compensation" means reparation in money. Compensation in Germany Provisions relating to compensation in the German Criminal Code [1]: This criminal issue is covered [...]...
32. Conduct Conduct in Europe Conduct (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Conduct" means voluntary behaviour of any kind, verbal or non-verbal: it includes a single act or a number of acts, behaviour of a negative or passive...
33. Confidential Information Confidential Information in Europe Confidential Information (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Confidential information" means information which, either from its nature or the circumstances in which it was obtained, the party receiving the [...]...
34. Co-ownership Co-ownership in Europe Co-ownership (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Co-ownership", when created under Book VIII, means that two or more co-owners own undivided shares in the whole and each co-owner can dispose of that co-owner's...
35. Corporeal Corporeal in Europe Corporeal (in European Private Law) In this context, this may be a concept of the term: "Corporeal", in relation to property, means having a physical existence in solid, liquid or gaseous form. Resources See Also Private Law...