Mitigation of Damage: A French Perspective

‘Nothing ventured, everything gained!’ is an apt summary of the position recently adopted by the French Cour de Cassation towards the subject of mitigation of loss. In two seminal judgments of 19 June 2003,1 the French supreme court2 explicitly rejected the introduction of a general principle of mit...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inThe International and comparative law quarterly Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 205 - 217
Main Author Le Pautremat, Solène
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.01.2006
Oxford University Press
Subjects
Appellate courts
Civil law
COMMON LAW
Comparative law
Compensation
Contract breaches
Contract law
CONTRACTS
Defendants
France
Judiciary power
Legal systems
Loss
Mitigation of damages
Shorter Articles, Comments and Notes
Specific performance
Supreme Court
Tort law
TORTS
Victim compensation
GREAT BRITAIN
Online AccessGet full text
ISSN0020-5893
1471-6895
DOI10.1093/iclq/lei072

Cover

More Information
Summary:‘Nothing ventured, everything gained!’ is an apt summary of the position recently adopted by the French Cour de Cassation towards the subject of mitigation of loss. In two seminal judgments of 19 June 2003,1 the French supreme court2 explicitly rejected the introduction of a general principle of mitigation in the French law of tort, thereby departing from the solutions reached in England and other neighbouring legal systems.
Bibliography:INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW QUARTERLY, Vol. 55, No. 1, Jan 2006, [205]-217
INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW QUARTERLY, Vol. 55, No. 1, Jan 2006: [205]-217
2021-08-06T15:00:16+10:00
InterCompLawQ.jpg
Informit, Melbourne (Vic)
ObjectType-Article-1
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
content type line 14
ObjectType-Article-2
ObjectType-Feature-1
content type line 23
ISSN:0020-5893
1471-6895
DOI:10.1093/iclq/lei072