This study aims at presenting the new legal provisions at EU level regarding orphan works (Directive 2012/28/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on certain permitted uses of orphan works) and their transposition into national law. The study explains the content of...

The actual Civil code regulates for the first time in the Romanian legislation the intermediation contract, until its entering into force existing multiple situations that lent themselves to this legal operation, but did not benefit of such particular legal rules. Yet, the case law has shown...

By means of the present study, we try to offer a thorough image and an analysis concerning the assignment mode of social parts within a company having limited liability. The assignment of social parts is free and unrestricted except for the cases provided by article 202, paragraph 2 from Law no....

The penalty clause is that ancillary agreement in which the parties predetermines the equivalent loss suffered by the creditor as a result of the failure, delay or improper performance of the obligation by the debtor. Over time, the legal nature of penalty clause has been a controversial...

This paper addresses one of the most pressing issues of private law, namely, the theory of unpredictability. The theory of imprevision is a question of law under the effects of the current economic crisis has resulted in contract law. Also, updating legal issues raised by the theory of...

Agency contracts are created as legal instruments with a highly important role for the business activity, given that they are the basis for professional intermediation. Regulations have changed in time, in an attempt to offer a better apprehension of the notion and applicability of this type of...

Law no. 230 of July 6th, 2007 on the set up, organization and operation of the owners' associations, as well as its enforcement guidelines of December 19th, 2007 for the implementation of Law no. 230/2007, although they seem quite broadly regulated, they are not clear enough, not even to this...

The Romanian Civil Code of 2009 introduces a new legal construct in the Romanian legal system, i.e. the option agreement, mainly taken from French law. This paper aims at highlighting the differences between the option agreement and other legal constructs which constitute acts preceding the...

The purpose of this study is to analyse the main elements of novelty brought by the transposition of the Directive 2011/7/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating late payment in commercial transactions in the Romanian national legislation by Law no. 72/2013 on the measures...

Nullity is the civil legal sanction which determines the ineffectiveness of the juridical act, by depriving it of those effects that do not comply with the legal provisions enacted for its lawful conclusion. The sanction is applicable to both civil legal acts, among which the company contract,...