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The Attitude of the Continental Legal Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

K. Lipstein
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Every approach to the problems of private international law from a comparative point of view must of necessity envisage the differences of basic conceptions between English and Continental law. Quasi-contractual obligations in Continental law are based on a universally recognized principle of natural justice, and if they are often classified as being quasicontractual, this expression is used to distinguish them from obligations arising in contract or tort rather than for the purpose of assimilating them to contract.

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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 1939 , pp. 84 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 1939

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References

1 Fiore (1900), Clunet 27, 451; Pillet-Niboyet, Manuel de droit international privé, ii, 610; Cass. civ. 23. 2. 1891; D. 1892. 1. 29; S. 1895. 1. 78.

2 Droit civil international, viii, p. 9, quoted by Piore, op. cit. 455.

3 Traité théorique et pratique de droit international privé, iv, pp. 387–90.

4 Précis de droit international privé, 5th ed. p. 933.

5 See Planiol et Ripert (Esmein), Traité pratique de droit civil francais (1931), vii, p. 65 (no. 767). As to German law see the judgment of the German Supreme Court of (at p. 174) 5. 7. 1910 in Eeichsgerichtsentscheidungen (RGZ), vol. 77, p. 171.

6 See Weiss, , op. cit. iii, p. 190, note; Lainé in Bulletin de la Société de Législation comparée, 1889–90, vol. xix, p. 554.Google Scholar

7 Internationalprivatrecht (in Stammler: Das gesamte Deutsche Recht) at p. 1624.

8 Internationales Privatrecht, p. 104–5.

9 Arminjon, Précis de droit international privé, 2nd ed. ii, p. 339. This view is also supported by two recent decisions of the German Supreme Court of May 4, 1932, IPRspr. 1932, p. 86, no. 38, and May 15, 1930 IPRspr. 1930, p. 120, no. 50. See also the decision of the Supreme Court of the Netherlands quoted in the Répertoire de droit international (Pays Bas), vol. vi, no. 251.

10 Schnitzer, Handtrach des Intemationalen Privatrechts, p. 290.

11 The majority of French, Swiss and Dutch writers favour this view. Opinion is divided in Germany.

12 For the relevant statute law see Ficker in Rechtsvergleichendes Handworterbuch, vol. iv (sub tit. Quasikontrakte) p. 387.

13 See the articles in Répertoire de droit international, vols. vi and vii, under the heading of Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, The Netherlands and Switzerland. In Germany the practice varies.

14 Internationales Privatrecht, ii, p. 523, cited by Frankenstein, ii, p. 391, note 29.

15 Internationales Privatrecht, ii, pp. 392, 393.

16 Principes de droit international privé, vol. i, p. 568.

17 Manuel de droit international privépertoire de droit international (Autriche), vol. vi, no. 178.

18 Internationales Privatrecht, 2nd ed. p. 467.

19 Répertoire de droit international (Autriche), vol. vi, no. 178.

20 Ibid. (Tchéoslovaquie), vol. viii, no. 184.

21 Theorie und Praxis des Internationalen Privatrechts, 2nd ed vol. ii, pp. 123, 124, 113.

22 Op. cit., p. 339.

23 Supreme Court of July 5, 1910, EGZ, vol. 77, p. 171: see also of March 16, 1928, IPBspr. 1928, p. 37, no. 58.

24 [1904] 1 K. B. 493.

25 Décieions des Tribunaux Arbitraux Mixtes, vi, pp. 13, 588, 607, 639.

26 Manuel de droit international privé, p. 970.

27 Op. cit. p. 610.

28 Cass. civ. 23. 2. 1891, D. 1892. 1. 29; S. 1895. 1. 78 and the decision of the Court of Appeal of Athens cited in Clunet, vol. 34 (1907), p. 503.