Commercial Contracts
Breaking Off Negotiations Under French Law: Freedom, Good Faith and the Cost of Abuse
French law lets you walk away from negotiations freely, but a bad-faith rupture can cost you. This guide explains when breaking off becomes wrongful, what the o…
The Precontractual Duty of Disclosure in France: What Article 1112-1 Really Requires
Since 2016, Article 1112-1 obliges a party who knows information determining for the other's consent to disclose it, and the duty cannot be contracted out. This…
Limitation of Liability Clauses in French Contracts: The Rules That Decide Their Fate
A limitation of liability clause is valid in principle in France, but the courts will break it for gross fault or where it empties the contract's essential obli…
Penalty Clauses in French Contracts: What They Secure and How Judges Police Them
A clause pénale fixes in advance the damages for a breach, but Article 1231-5 lets a French judge raise or cut a sum that is manifestly excessive or derisory. T…
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