Where the cause of nullity affects only one or more clauses of the contract, it entails nullity of the entire act only if that clause or those clauses constituted a determining element of the commitment of the parties or of one of them. The contract is maintained when the law repudiates the unwritten clause, or when the purposes of the disregarded rule require its maintenance.
A plea of nullity is not time-barred if it relates to a contract that has not been performed.
A contract validly formed lapses if one of its essential elements disappears. Where the performance of several contracts is necessary for the performance of the same transaction and one of them disappears, contracts whose performance is rendered impossible by that disappearance and those for which the performance of the disappeared contract was a determining condition of a party’s consent lapse. Lapse occurs, however, only if the contracting party against whom…
Lapse terminates the contract. It may give rise to restitution under the conditions set out in articles 1352 to 1352-9.
The contract is interpreted according to the common intention of the parties rather than by stopping at the literal meaning of its terms. Where this intention cannot be detected, the contract is interpreted according to the meaning that a reasonable person placed in the same situation would give to it.
All the clauses of a contract are to be interpreted in relation to each other, giving to each the meaning which respects the coherence of the whole act. When, with the common intention of the parties, several contracts contribute to the same transaction, they are interpreted in relation to it.
When in doubt, a contract by mutual agreement is construed against the creditor and in favour of the debtor, and a contract of adhesion against the person who proposed it.
When a clause has two possible meanings, the one that gives it effect prevails over the one that does not.
Clear and precise clauses cannot be interpreted without distortion.
Contracts may only be modified or revoked with the mutual consent of the parties, or for reasons permitted by law.
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