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Restitution

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The restitution of benefits is one of the effects of avoidance or termination of the contract, along with the extinguishment of the obligation. The CESL contains, in Chapter 17, arts. 172–177, some rules on the scope and manner of exercising a restitution claim of whatever was supplied under a contract that has been subsequently avoided or terminated. The CESL regulates jointly restitution arising from avoidance and termination; an approach which is new compared to the different European legal systems, although these two remedies do not arise from an identical basis. The aim of this commentary is to analyse the most relevant aspects of this proposal, highlighting certain gaps in the text that could cause problems of interpretation and application.

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  1. 1.

    Articles 1117 and 1304–1314 CC for avoidance and invalidity; arts. 1183 and 1184 CC for termination. Picod, Y. (2013), Encyclopédie Dalloz, “Nullitè”; C. Chabas (2010), “Résolution”, Encyclopédie Dalloz, Repertoire de droit civil.

  2. 2.

    Articles 1422 and 2033 CC for avoidance of contract; art. 1458 CC for termination for breach of contract.

  3. 3.

    Articles 1303 and 1308 CC; v. Clemente Meoro, p .495 et seq.

  4. 4.

    Moreover, unlike avoidance, which is retroactive, the effect of termination is not absolute, since several effects of the contract remain. So, termination does not affect the application of clauses introduced precisely for that eventuality, such as exclusion or exemption clauses, or the arbitration clauses that were intended to apply despite any termination.

  5. 5.

    McGregor, H., Contract Code. Drawn up on behalf of the English Law Commission, Milán, 1983, p. 83.

  6. 6.

    Thus, art. 1303 CC, provides for restitution in respect of contractual invalidity, together with art. 1308 CC, which states: “While one of the contracting parties does not return that which he is obliged to return pursuant to the declaration of nullity, the other cannot be compelled to perform in his turn what is incumbent on him”.

  7. 7.

    This is provided for by a new art. 172(2)d introduced by Amendment 228.

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    Adela Serra Rodríguez

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    Luz M. Martínez Velencoso

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Serra Rodríguez, A. (2015). Restitution. In: Plaza Penadés, J., Martínez Velencoso, L. (eds) European Perspectives on the Common European Sales Law. Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation, vol 4. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10497-3_14

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