Liability adjustment and increasing caution in contract execution in Efficient Breach theory in French Reform of the law of obligations, Iran, and Common law

Document Type : Scientific research

Authors

Jalal Soltanahmadi ¹

Zahra Vatani ²

Masoumeh Zamanian ³

¹ Ph.D. in Private Law, Tarbiat Modares University, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law Payame Noor University, South Tehran, Iran

² Ph.D. in Islamic Jurisprudence and Law, Assistant Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and Law, Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution Research Institute, Tehran, Iran

³ 1- M.Sc. Graduate, Department of International Law, Faculty of Law, Payame Noor, South Tehran, Iran. 2- M.Sc.Graduate of the Department of Jurisprudence and Law, Al-Zahra Faculty of Theology, Tehran, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22067/economlaw.2023.74189.1121

Abstract

The concept of the efficient breach is made of fundamental modifications withinside the regulation of responsibilities and the substitute of the system of ethical utilitarianism with a system based on value originality. And considers the idea of contract regulation now no longer as "obligatoriness of contracts", however as "necessity of acquiring the preferred contract", that is inevitable if the contract is acquired through executing the contract. And if its miles occurred through the breach, breach of contract isn't simplest disgusting, however commendable and possibly necessary, and "efficiency" is the criterion for being based on one in every of methods. In present-day criminal perspectives, it's miles a remember of "credit" that "shipping the authentic thing " is one of the methods to obtain it. Also, the obligation of making the "desirable" isn't completely at the obligor, and the obligee is needed to participate withinside the choicest provision of the contract because of intervening withinside the contract. In addition, it isn't simplest for the parties who're withinside the scope of the results of the transaction, however, additionally, a third party, relying on the circumstances, may input into this variety and be responsible beneath neath this agreement. The purpose of the prevailing study withinside the Iranian legal system is to use a descriptive-analytical approach to evaluate this concept to the principles and postulates of this legal system. Although before everything look this concept is taken into consideration in opposition to the obligatoriness of contracts and its utility is forbidden, however, in a deeper analysis, the possibility of its utility in this legal system based on jurisprudence isn't ruled out, And preventive liability for breaches will significantly increase economic efficiency.

Keywords

Economic Efficiency

Deterrence

Preventive responsibility

Mitigation of Damages

The principle of ability citation contract

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