Peter A Allard School Of Law University Of British Columbia

Germany has a special approach to contracts, which ties into property law. Their 'abstraction precept' signifies that the private obligation of contract types individually from the title of property being conferred. When contracts are invalidated for some purpose (e.g. a automobile purchaser is so drunk that he lacks authorized capacity to contract) the contractual obligation to pay could be invalidated individually from the proprietary title of the automotive. Unjust enrichment law, quite than contract law, is then used to revive title to the rightful…