title: Causal motive and its legal significance in contract law
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metadata.value: Petrova, Daria S.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-12-13T17:41:58Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-12-13T17:41:58Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Petrova, Daria S. 2020. Causal motive and its legal significance in contract law. Pravovedenie 64 (3): 373–399.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2020.304
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33880
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The author of this article analyses the problem of motives for entering into a contact and their
  legal significance and systematically considers the impact of an error in motive on the legal
  validity of a contract in German law as well as in Russian law. In German law, an error in the
  properties of a person or an object is regarded by some experts as a mistake in the motive that
  testifies to its legal significance. In Russian law, in addition to an error in the object, the mistake
  in the motive is an error in regard to a circumstance that a party mentions in its expressed will or on which it bases itself evidently to another party when entering into a contract. The article
  also explores situations of subsequent failure to fulfill the motive in light of national (German and
  Russian) doctrines of the influence of a subsequent change of circumstances on the contract’s
  fate. The author concludes that the criterion which make it possible to distinguish a legally relevant
  motive from motives that have no legal significance is characteristic of the causality of
  the motive. The causality of the motive presumes that such a motive served as a key factor in
  predetermining the decision of the interested party to enter into a contract. It is the error in the
  causal motive or its subsequent non-implementation that affects the dynamics of the contract
  and it can lead to the effective avoidance of a contract or its termination (alteration) accordingly.
  The author also compares the consequences of non-implementation of a motive in civil
  law and the English doctrine “frustration of purpose”. In English law, non-implementation of a
  motive according to the doctrine of “frustration of purpose” leads to the automatic termination
  of a contact. On the basis of mentioned research, the author concludes that the common
  criterion in civil and English law that stipulates the legal effect of the error in motive or its nonimplementation
  is the causality of the motive.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 64; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contract
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contractual obligations
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: motive
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: error
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: error in motive
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: change of circumstances
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: termination of a contract
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: alteration of a contract
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Causal motive and its legal significance in contract law
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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