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[print this document] [save as pdf]Trans-Lex Administrative InformationDocument-ID: 600100[click here to copy citation to clipboard]Please Cite as: "http://www.trans-lex.org/600100".TitleBürgerliches Gesetzbuch - German Civil CodeSocial Networks Table of Contents Please find the table of contents for the translated version below.Bürgerliches GesetzbuchBuch 1.- Allgemeiner TeilAbschnitt 3. - RechtsgeschäfteTitel 2.- Willenserklärung§ 119 Anfechtbarkeit wegen Irrtums§ 138 Sittenwidriges Geschäft; Wucher§ 141 Bestätigung des nichtigen RechtsgeschäftsTitel 4. Bedingung und Zeitbestimmung§ 158 Aufschiebende und auflösende BedingungTitel 5. - Vertretung und Vollmacht§ 164 Wirkung der Erklärung des Vertreters§ 165 Beschränkt geschäftsfähiger Vertreter§ 166 Willensmängel; Wissenszurechnung§ 167 Erteilung der Vollmacht§ 168 Erlöschen der Vollmacht§ 169 Vollmacht des Beauftragten und des geschäftsführenden Gesellschafters§ 170 Wirkungsdauer der Vollmacht§ 171 Wirkungsdauer bei Kundgebung§ 172 Vollmachtsurkunde§ 173 Wirkungsdauer bei Kenntnis und fahrlässiger Unkenntnis§ 174 Einseitiges Rechtsgeschäft eines Bevollmächtigten§ 175 Rückgabe der Vollmachtsurkunde§ 176 Kraftloserklärung der Vollmachtsurkunde§ 177 Vertragsschluss durch Vertreter ohne Vertretungsmacht§ 178 Widerrufsrecht des anderen Teils§ 179 Haftung des Vertreters ohne VertretungsmachtAbschnitt 4.- Fristen, Termine§ 193 Sonn- und Feiertage; SonnabendeAbschnitt 5. VerjährungTitel 2. Hemmung, Ablaufhemmung und Neubeginn der Verjährung§ 206 Hemmung der Verjährung bei höherer GewaltBuch 2.- Recht der SchuldverhältnisseAbschnitt 1. - Inhalt der SchuldverhältnisseTitel 1. - Verpflichtung zur Leistung§ 241 Pflichten aus dem Schuldverhältnis§ 242 Leistung nach Treu und Glauben§ 244 Fremdwährungsschuld§ 280 Schadensersatz wegen Pflichtverletzung§ 281 Schadensersatz statt der Leistung wegen nicht oder nicht wie geschuldet erbrachter Leistung§ 282 Schadensersatz statt der Leistung wegen Verletzung einer Pflicht nach § 241 Abs. 2§ 283 Schadensersatz statt der Leistung bei Ausschluss der Leistungspflicht§ 284 Ersatz vergeblicher Aufwendungen§ 285 Herausgabe des ErsatzesAbschnitt 2.- Gestaltung rechtsgeschäftlicher Schuldverhältnisse durch Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen § 305 Einbeziehung Allgemeiner Geschäftsbedingungen in den Vertrag§ 305a Einbeziehung in besonderen Fällen§ 305b Vorrang der Individualabrede§ 305c Überraschende und mehrdeutige KlauselnAbschnitt 3. Schuldverhältnisse aus VerträgenTitel 1. - Begründung, Inhalt des VertragesUntertitel 1. Begründung§ 311 Rechtsgeschäftliche und rechtsgeschäftsähnliche SchuldverhältnisseUntertitel 3. Anpassung und Beendigung von Verträgen§ 313 Störung der GeschäftsgrundlageUntertitel 4. Einseitige Leistungsbestimmungsrechte§ 315 Bestimmung der Leistung durch eine ParteiTitel 2. - Gegenseitiger Vertrag§ 320 Einrede des nichterfüllten Vertrags§ 321 Unsicherheitseinrede§ 322 Verurteilung zur Erfüllung Zug -um- Zug§ 323 Rücktritt wegen nicht oder nicht vertragsgemäß erbrachter Leistung§ 324 Rücktritt wegen Verletzung einer Pflicht nach § 241 Abs. 2§ 325 Schadensersatz und Rücktritt§ 326 Befreiung von der Gegenleistung und Rücktritt beim Ausschluss der LeistungspflichtAbschnitt 5 - Übertragung einer Forderung§ 398 Abtretung§ 399 Ausschluss der Abtretung bei Inhaltsänderung oder Vereinbarung§ 400 Ausschluss bei unpfändbaren Forderungen§ 401 Übergang der Neben- und Vorzugsrechte§ 402 Auskunftspflicht; Urkundenauslieferung§ 403 Pflicht zur Beurkundung§ 404 Einwendungen des Schuldners§ 405 Abtretung unter Urkundenvorlegung§ 406 Aufrechnung gegenüber dem neuen Gläubiger§ 407 Rechtshandlungen gegenüber dem bisherigen Gläubiger§ 408 Mehrfache Abtretung§ 409 Abtretungsanzeige§ 410 Aushändigung der Abtretungsurkunde§ 411 Gehaltsabtretung§ 412 Gesetzlicher Forderungsübergang§ 413 Übertragung anderer RechteAbschnitt 8. Einzelne SchuldverhältnisseTitel 9. Werkvertrag und ähnliche VerträgeUntertitel 2. Reisevertrag§ 651j Kündigung wegen höherer GewaltTitel 12. Auftrag und GeschäftsbesorgungsvertragUntertitel 2. GeschäftsbesorgungsvertragKapitel 2. Überweisungsvertrag§ 676 b Haftung für verspätete Ausführung; Geld-zurück-GarantieTitel 26. - Ungerechtfertigte Bereicherung§ 812 Herausgabeanspruch§ 813 Erfüllung trotz Einrede§ 814 Kenntnis der Nichtschuld§ 815 Nichteintritt des Erfolgs§ 816 Verfügung eines Nichtberechtigten§ 817 Verstoß gegen Gesetz oder gute Sitten§ 818 Umfang des Bereicherungsanspruchs§ 819 Verschärfte Haftung bei Kenntnis und bei Gesetzes- oder Sittenverstoß§ 820 Verschärfte Haftung bei ungewissem Erfolgseintritt§ 821 Einrede der Bereicherung§ 822 Herausgabepflicht DritterBuch 3. - SachenrechtAbschnitt 2. Allgemeine Vorschriften über Rechte an Grundstücken§ 892 Öffentlicher Glaube des GrundbuchsAbschnitt Drei. EigentumTitel Drei. Erwerb und Verlust des Eigentums an beweglichen Sachen§ 932 Gutgläubiger Erwerb vom Nichtberechtigten§ 932a Gutgläubiger Erwerb nicht eingetragener Seeschiffe§ 933 Gutgläubiger Erwerb bei Besitzkonstitut§ 934 Gutgläubiger Erwerb bei Abtretung des Herausgabeanspruchs§ 935 Kein gutgläubiger Erwerb von abhanden gekommenen Sachen§ 936 Erlöschen von Rechten DritterBook 1. General PartSection 3. Legal TransactionsTitle 2. Declaration of Intention§ 119 Rescission due to error§ 138 Legal transaction against public policy; usury§ 141 Confirmation of a void legal transactionTitle 4. Conditions and specification of time§ 158 Conditions precedent and subsequentTitle 5. Agency and Power of Attorney§ 164 Effect of declaration by a representative§ 165 Representative limited in competency§ 166 Lack of intention; knowledge; power of attorneySection 4. Periods of time, Time limits§ 193 Sundays and holidays; SaturdaysSection 5. Statutory period of limitation§ 206 Suspension of limitation in the event of force majeureBook 2. Law of Obligations.Section 1. Subject matter of the obligationTitle 1. Obligation to perform§ 241 Duties arising out of the obligation§ 242 Performance according to good faith§ 244. Foreign currency debtSection 3 - Contractual obligationsTitle 1. - Creation, subject matter and cessationSubtitle 1. Creation§ 311 Obligations created by legal transaction and similar obligationsSubtitle 3. Adaptation and ending of contracts§ 313 Interference with the basis of the transactionSubtitle 4. Unilateral rights for specific performance§ 315 Determination of the performance by one partyTitle 2. - Mutual Contract§ 320 Plea of unperformed contract§ 321 Defence of insecurity§ 322 Court order to contemporaneous performance§ 323 Termination for non-performance or for performance not in accordance with the contract§ 324 Termination for breach of a duty under § 241 (2)§ 325 Compensation and termination§ 326. Release from counter-performance and termination where there is no duty to performSection 4.- Assignment of a claim§ 398 Assignment§ 399 Assignment excluded in case of alteration of content or by agreement§ 400 Exclusion of non-attachable claims§ 401 Transfer of ancillary and preferential rights§ 402 Obligation to furnish information; obligation to deliver documents§ 403 Duty to execute document§ 404 Defenses of debtor§ 405 Assignment and production of document§ 406 Set-off against the assignee§ 407 Legal transactions with assignee§ 408 Multiple assignment§ 409 Notice of assignment§ 410 Production of document of assignment§ 411 Assignment of salary§ 412 Provisions as to transfer of claims§ 413 Transfer of other rightsSection 8. Particular kinds of obligationsTitle 9. Contract to produce a work and similar contractsSubtitle 2. Package travel contract§ 651j Termination due to force majeureTitle 12. Mandate and contract for the management of the affairs of anotherSubtitle 2. Contract for the management of the affairs of anotherChapter 2. Bank transfer contract§ 676 b Liability for late execution ; money-back-guaranteeTitle 26. - Unjust Enrichment§ 812 Claim for restitution§ 813 Fulfillment despite defense§ 814 Knowledge of debt not owed§ 815 Non-occurrence of result§ 816 Disposition by person without title§ 817 Violation of law or public policy§ 818 Extent of claim of enrichment§ 819 Increased liability in case of bad faith and infringement of law or public policy§ 820 Increased liability in case of uncertainty of production of result§ 821 Claim of enrichment§ 822 Third party's duty to returnBook 3. Law of Property.Section 2. General Provisions regarding rights over land§ 892 Land Register as evidenceSection 3. OwnershipTitle 3. Acquisition and Loss of ownership of movable propertySubtitle 1. Transfer§ 932 Acquisition in good faith from unauthorized person§ 932a Acquisition in good faith of unregistered ship§ 933 Acquisition in good faith in case of constructive possession§ 934 Acquisition in good faith in case of waiver of claim§ 935 No acquisition in good faith of lost property§ 936 Extinction of third party rightsContentBürgerliches Gesetzbuch
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Original (1) A person who, when making a declaration of intention, is in error as to its content, or did not intend to make a declaration of such content at all, may rescind the declaration if it may be assumed that he would not have made it with knowledge of the facts and with reasonable appreciation of the situation.
Original (2) An error as to the content of the declaration is regarded in the same way as an error as to those characteristics of a person or thing which are regarded in business as essential.
Original (1) A legal transaction which is against public policy is void.
Original (2) A legal transaction by which a person exploiting the need, inexperience, lack of sound judgment or substantial lack of will power of another, causes to be promised or granted to himself or to a third party in exchange for a performance, pecuniary advantages which are in obvious disproportion to the performance is also void.
Original (1) If a void legal transaction is confirmed by the person who undertook it, the confirmation is to be seen as a renewed undertaking.
Original (2) If a void contract is confirmed by the parties, then in case of doubt they are obliged to grant to each other what they would have granted if the contract had been valid from the beginning.
Original (1) If a legal transaction is entered into subject to a condition precedent, the legal transaction that is subject to the condition comes into effect when the condition is satisfied.
Original (2) If a legal transaction is entered into subject to a condition subsequent, the effect of the legal transaction ends when the condition is satisfied; at this moment the previous legal situation is restored.
Original (1) A declaration of intention which a person makes in the name of a principal within the scope of his agency operates directly both in favor of and against the principal. It makes no difference whether the declaration is made expressly in the name of the principal, or if the circumstances indicate that it was to be made in his name.
Original (2) If the intention to act in the name of another is not apparent, the agent's absence of intention to act in his own name is not taken into consideration.
Original (3) The provisions of (1) apply mutatis mutandis if a declaration of intention required to be made to another is made to his agent.
Original The validity of a declaration of intention made by or to an agent is not impaired by the fact that he is limited in competency to enter into legal transactions.
Original (1) Insofar as the legal effectiveness of a declaration of intention is vitiated by lack of intention, or by knowledge or by attributable knowledge of certain circumstances, the person not of the principal, but of the agent, is taken into consideration.
Original (2) When a power of agency (power of attorney) is conferred by legal transaction, if the agent has acted according to specific instructionsof the principal, the latter may not rely on the ignorance of the agent with regard to circumstances known to him. The same applies to circumstances which the principal should have known, so far as attributable knowledge is equivalent to knowledge.
Original If, on a given day or within a given period, a declaration of intention is required to be made or any act of performance to be done, and if the given day or the last day of the given period falls upon a Sunday, a day officially recognized in the place of declaration or performance as a public holiday, or a Saturday, then the next business day takes the place of such a day.
Original Limitation is suspended for a period during which the obligee has, within the last six months of the limitation period, been prevented by force majeure from pursing his rights.
Original (1) By virtue of the obligation the creditor is entitled to demand performance from the obligor. Performance may also consist in refraining from doing something.
Original (2) An obligation may require each party to have regard to the other party’s rights, legally protected interests and other interests.
Original The debtor is bound to effect performance according to the requirements of good faith, giving consideration to common usage.
Original (1) If money debt expressed in another currency than EURO is payable within the country, payment may be made in the currency of the country, unless payment in the foreign currency is expressly agreed.
Original (2) The conversion is made at the currency rate of exchange in the place of payment. Section 3 - Contractual obligations
Original (1) Unless otherwise provided by statute, a contract between the parties is necessary in order to create an obligation by legal transaction or to alter the content of an obligation.
Original 2) An obligation with duties in accordance with § 241 also arises as a result of 1. entry into contractual negotiations, 2. preparations undertaken with a view to creating a contractual relationship if one party permits the other party to affect his rights, his legally protected interest or other interests or entrusts them to that party, or 3. similar business contact.
Original (3) An obligation with duties in accordance with § 241 (2) may also arise towards persons who are not intended to be parties to the contract. Such an obligation arises in particular if the third party by enlisting a particularly high degree of reliance materially influences the contractual negotiations or the conclusion of the contract.
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GorenTrans-Lex Administrative InformationDocument-ID: 600100[click here to copy citation to clipboard]Please Cite as: "http://www.trans-lex.org/600100".Referring Principles/Related Documents Referring Principle: No. I.1.1 - Good faith and fair dealing in international trade Referring Principle: No. I.3.1 - Limitation of transfer of rights Referring Principle: No. II.1 - Prerequisites and effects of agency Referring Principle: No. III.2 - Assignment of claim Referring Principle: No. IV.1.1 - Freedom of contract Referring Principle: No. IV.6.2 - Subsequent fixing of contract price Referring Principle: No. IV.2.5 - Holidays and non-business days Referring Principle: No. IV.6.9 - Conditions Referring Principle: No. IV.7.1 - Invalidity of contract that violates boni mores Referring Principle: No. IV.7.3 - Right to avoid the contract for mistake in fact or law Referring Principle: No. IV.8.1 - Principle of pre-contractual liability Referring Principle: No. V.1.4 - Principle of simultaneous performance Referring Principle: No. VI.3 - Force majeure Referring Principle: No. V.2.1 - Payment in currency of place of payment Referring Principle: No. IX.1 - Basic rule Referring Principle: No. IX.6 - No restitution in case of knowledge of illegality of performance Referring Principle: No. II.5 - Attribution of knowledge to principal Referring Principle: No. IV.3.1 - Scope of application; Definition Referring Principle: No. IV.3.3 - Conflicting terms; battle of forms Referring Principle: No. IV.3.2 - No surprising standard terms Referring Principle: No. IV.5.4 - Interpretation against the party that supplied the termThis document is cited by: Berger, Klaus Peter, Der Aufrechnungsvertrag, Aufrechnung durch Vertrag - Vertrag über Aufrechnung Berger, Klaus Peter, The Creeping Codification of the Lex Mercatoria, The Hague, London, Boston 1999 Lando, Non-Performance (Breach) of Contracts, in: Hartkamp et. al., Towards a European Civil Code, 2004, Nijmegen Pawlowski, Enka, Der Prima-Facie-Beweis bei Schadensersatzansprüchen aus Delikt und Vertrag, Göttingen, 1966. 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