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Turkish Contract Law pp 47–51Cite as

Obligation to Contract

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According to the principle of freedom of contract, within the limits of the law, each person is free to enter into a contract or not. However, in certain circumstances, a person may have an obligation to contract.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For further explanations see Ayrancı (2006), Doğan (2006).

  2. 2.

    Obligatory: Imposing obligation, creating or constituting an obligation.

  3. 3.

    A suggested translation for Verpflichtungsgeschäft is ‘transaction of obligation’ (Foster and Sule (2010), p. 416 fn. 22). According to certain scholars, an appropriate term that defines Verpflichtungsgeschäft is ‘obligatory transaction’ (Häcker (2013), p. 20 fn. 14). In this sense, Zekoll and Reimann (2005), p. 234; Faber and Lurger (2011), p. 563.

  4. 4.

    von Tuhr and Peter (1979), § 33, I, p. 274; Oğuzman and Öz (2015), p. 188; Reisoğlu (2014), p. 98; Eren (2015), p. 311; Nomer (2015), p. 50; Kocayusufpaşaoğlu (2014), p. 100.

  5. 5.

    Déclaration de volonté, Willenserklärung.

  6. 6.

    Reisoğlu (2014), p. 98; Nomer (2015), p. 51.

  7. 7.

    Engel (1997), p. 182; Kocayusufpaşaoğlu (2014), p. 107.

  8. 8.

    Thévenoz and Werro (2012), art. 22, N. 7.

  9. 9.

    Eren (2015), p. 315; Nomer (2015), p. 51; Oğuzman and Öz (2015), p. 190, 376.

  10. 10.

    Oğuzman and Öz (2015), pp. 189–190, 376; Eren (2015), pp. 314–315.

  11. 11.

    Oğuzman and Öz (2015), p. 185, Cf. Gauch et al. (2008), p. 243.

  12. 12.

    Compare to Engel (1997), p. 100.

  13. 13.

    Tekinay et al. (1993), p. 365; Eren (2015), pp. 304–305.

  14. 14.

    For further explanations see Yıldız (2012).

  15. 15.

    Déclaration de volonté, Willenserklärung.

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Helvacı, İ. (2017). Obligation to Contract. In: Turkish Contract Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60061-1_7

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