Option Agreement and the Promise to Contract as Established in the New Romanian Civil Code
Autor | Urs Ilie |
Cargo | Professor at Faculty of Law Cluj-Napoca, 'Dimitrie Cantemir' Christian University |
Páginas | 101-120 |
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In the Romanian private law, the op-
tion agreement is not a unilateral promise
to sell, neither a variety of the unilateral
promise to sell, but a contract with an
option right. The option agreement is
a contract with an option right, under
which one of the parties shall undertake
to stick to its oer to enter into a given
contract, as he has already consented to
that, whereas the other party, the bene-
ciary, shall be entitled to accept or refuse
the oer; the use of the acceptance right
is enough to enter into that contract. is
article examines the status to which the
* Professor at Faculty of Law Cluj-Napoca, “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian Uni-
versity. Adress: Str. Calea Dorobantilor Nr. 74, bloc Y9, scara 2, ap. 27, postal code
400609, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. E-mail: dr_ursilie@yahoo.com
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En el Derecho privado rumano, el
contrato de opción no es una promesa
unilateral de venta, ni una variedad de
la promesa unilateral de venta, sino un
contrato con un derecho de opción. El
contrato de opción es un contrato con
un derecho de opción, en virtud del cual
una de las partes se compromete a adhe-
rirse a su oferta de celebrar un contrato
determinado, para el que ya ha dado su
consentimiento, mientras que la otra
parte, el beneciario, tendrá derecho para
aceptar o rechazar la oferta; el ejercicio
del derecho de aceptación es suciente
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C E N
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[La regulación del contrato de opción y de la promesa de contrato en el nuevo
‘Código Civil’ rumano]
U I*
“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Bucharest, Romania
R el 29 de noviembre de 2012 y el 22 de abril de 2013
Revista de Derecho
de la Ponticia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
XL (Valparaíso, Chile, 2013, 1er Semestre)
[pp. 101 - 120]
U I102 R D, XL (1er S 2013)
para perfeccionar el contrato. En este
trabajo se estudia el estatuto al que se
sujeta dicho contrato en el nuevo Código
Civil rumano.
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Acuerdo de opción – Promesa de con-
trato – Nuevo Código Civil rumano.
1. Introduction.
As of 2004 and aer the accession of Romania to the European Union
(January 1st 2007), a new Civil Code started to be draed in order to meet
current social and legal requirements in Romania1.
Consequently, the new Romanian Civil Code, in force since October 1st
2011, was adopted by the Statute Nr. 287 of July 17th 20092. Among the
novelties existing in the new Civil Code, we mention the regulation of the
“the option agreement” and of “the promise to contract”.
As far as the option agreement is concerned, there are contradictory
points of view regarding its legal nature: according to some authors, the
option agreement is a unilateral promise to sell or a type of the promise to
sell; according to other authors, the option agreement is dierent from the
promise to contract.
at is why we shall try to study the institutions in question.
2. Regulation. Notion
Within the meaning of article 1278 Rom.CC.:
“(1) When two parties agree that one of the parties should stick to its own
declaration of will, whereas the other party should have the right to accept or
revoke it, that declaration is considered to be an irrevocable oer and produces
the eects stipulated under article 1191./ (2) In case the parties have not agreed
upon a time for acceptance, this shall be established by the Court via interlocu-
1 In order to elaborate the new Romanian Civil Code, a number of templates have
been used, taking into account especially the Civil Code of the province of uebec,
Canada, in force since 1994. Further sources of inspiration were the civil codes from
France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany and Brazil. A large part of the provisions of
the old 1864 Romanian Civil Code are also to be found in the new Civil Code.
2 Published in the “Ocial Gazette of Romania” Nr. 511 of July 24th 2009, amen-
ded by the implementation Statute Nr. 71/2011, published in the “Ocial Gazette of
Romania” Nr. 696 of September 30 2011.
contract is subject jn the new Romanian
Civil Code.
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Option agreement – Promise to con-
tract – New Romanian Civil Code.
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