Contractual Obligations

The vast majority of obligations take the form of contract between the parties, thus we will discuss formation of contract, what constitutes a contract obligation and what does not. Formation of a contrast : The contract is the final outcome of an offer and acceptance, it may be preceded by various negotiations, but there is no real contract unless there is total agreement...

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Transfer of Obligations

The obligation being regarded as a bond between determinate persons could not be transferred so as to be available for or against others. This is still true of certain classes of rights in personam which are of so personal a nature as to be obviously available only as between the original contracting parties, e.g., many contracts of service. Within certain limits,...

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Another classification of obligations

Classification of obligations distinguishes those which are civil from those which are natural, the natural obligation being one which is not enforceable by action. It consists, therefore, of an imperfect right and duty. Another classification of greater importance is based upon the nature of the acts and forbearances forming the content of the right and duty of which...

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Qualities of object in obligations to transfer 1

a. Existence of the thing to be transferred : Although in the Egyptian law the delivery and not the thing to be delivered is the object, yet seeing that there can be no delivery without a thing to be delivered, the existence of the thing is essential in the Egyptian law as in the French law. When there is an obligation to deliver a specific thing . The thing must be in existence at the date of the contract or the obligation is void for want of...

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