Law of Obligations and Contracts

Constitutional Law and Introduction to the Study of Law.

Theoretical classes are based on the theoretical and dogmatic components of the Law of Obligations and Contracts, with the respective illustration through the analysis of practical cases, with the following breakdown:

1.Face-to-face: – Theoretical-practical classes: Presentation of the syllabus and resolution of practical cases and case law.

2.Autonomous: – Reading of scientific articles. Specific resources: – Solved practical cases.

The resolution of practical cases requires that the theoretical knowledge under study be transmitted initially so that it can then be applied to the resolution of practical cases, thus allowing the content to be consolidated on a theoretical-practical level. Likewise, reading scientific articles will help develop students’ analytical and reflective skills. 

1. To give students a global and specific perspective on the various basic institutes of the Law of Obligations and Contracts.

2. To provide an insight into the specific structure of the relationship of obligation and its guiding principles, as well as the dynamics of the facts that give it life, with emphasis on those that reflect the functioning of private autonomy.

3. To make us understand the dogmatic construction of the legal relationship of obligation, following its vital path, from the constitutive fact to its extinction, through the study of the regime of each phase.

4. To make known the various institutes designed to compensate for damages and/or expenses or for acquisitions obtained at the expense of others (civil liability).

5. To introduce students to the keys to understanding the legal-private mechanisms of movement and access to assets, making them aware of the functions, ordering schemes and operative means of the law of obligations, as a branch of civil law.

6. To provide theoretical and practical knowledge of contractual reality, focusing on common contractual relationships aimed at providing services, transferring rights and the use of other people’s property.

Below is the correspondence between objectives and the syllabus adopted in the course:

Objectives 1 – are included in Chapter I of the syllabus.

Objectives 2 – can be found in Chapters I and II of the syllabus.

Objectives 3 – can be found in Chapters II and III of the syllabus.

Objectives 4 – are in Chapter II of the syllabus.

Objectives 5 – contained in Chapter III of the program.

Objectives 6 – contained in Chapter VI of the program.

CHAPTER I

1. The Law of Obligations and the legal definition of obligation

2. General principles of the Law of Obligations

3. Concept and structure of obligation

4. Characteristics of obligations

5. Limitations on the content of obligations

6. Distinction between rights of obligation and rights in rem

7. Types of obligations

 CHAPTER II

CONSTITUTION OF OBLIGATIONS

1. Sources of obligations. Classification

2. Sources of obligations based on the principle of restitution of unjustified enrichment.

enrichment

3. Sources of obligations based on the principle of compensation for damage

4. Specific situations of sources of obligations not based on general principles

5. Sources of obligations based on the principle of private autonomy

CHAPTER III

TRANSFER OF OBLIGATIONS AND EXTINCTION OF OBLIGATIONS

1. Assignment of claims

2. Subrogation

3. Assumption of debt

4. Assignment of contractual position

5. Causes of termination of legal transactions

CHAPTER IV

1. CONTRACTS IN GENERAL

2. CONTRACTS IN PARTICULAR

2.1 The contract of sale

2.2 Donation contracts

2.3 Partnership contracts

2.4 Rental contracts

2.5 Lending contract

2.6 Loan agreement

2.7 Mandate contract

2.8 The deposit contract

2.9 Works contracts

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Mandatory bibliography

MENEZES LEITÃO, Luís Manuel Teles de, Direito das Obrigações, Volume I, 16.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2022 (reimpressão 2023).

MENEZES LEITÃO, Luís Manuel Teles de, Direito das Obrigações, Volume II, 13.ª ed., Almedina, Coimbra, 2023.

ANTUNES, João de Matos, Das Obrigações em Geral, Volume I, 10.º ed., Coimbra: Almedina, 2015 (reimpressão versão 2000).

ANTUNES, João de Matos, Das Obrigações em Geral, Volume II, 7.º ed., Coimbra: Almedina, 2013 (reimpressão).

Código Civil.

Further reading

Casos Práticos de Solicitadoria – Direito das Obrigações (Coordenação Cátia Cebola), Almedina, Coimbra, 2018.

SANTOS JÚNIOR, Eduardo dos, Direito das Obrigações I – Sinopse Explicativa e Ilustrativa, 3.º ed., Lisboa: Associação Académica da Faculdade de Direito de Lisboa, 2014.

FERREIRA, Manuel Ataíde; RODRIGUES, Luís Silveira, Cláusulas Contratuais, Lisboa: Deco, 2011.

Luís Menezes LEITÃO, Arrendamento Urbano, 7.ª ed., Coimbra: Editora Almedina, 2014.

MANSO, Luís Duarte; OLIVEIRA, Nuno Teodósido, Direito das Obrigações – Casos Práticos, 6.ª ed., Lisboa_ Quid Juris, 2010.

RIBEIRO, Joaquim de Sousa, Direito dos Contratos – Estudos, Coimbra: Coimbra Editora, 2007.

GARCIA, Maria Olinda, PASSINHOS, Sandra, Casos Práticos, 2.ª ed., Coimbra: Editora Almedina, 2013.

SOARES, Carlos Ricardo, Contrato-Promessa de Compra e Venda de Fracção Autónoma, Guia Prático, 3.ª ed., Coimbra: Editora Almedina, 2005.

ROCHA, António Soares da, O Essencial sobre o Arrendamento Urbano, Vida Económica, 2014.