Private Contracting

Code:

DO413

Acronym:

CP

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Legal Sciences

Instance: 2009/2010 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Course/CS Responsible:	Law

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LDB	103	Oficial Study Plan LD	4	-	6	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The Private Contracts course is an option taught in the second semester of the forth grade of the First Degree in Law at the FDUP. Its aim is to complement the knowledge already acquired in the subjects taken in the General Theory of Civil Law and the Law of Obligations, in the sphere of civil and commercial contracts. The course is divided into two main parts, namely, the contracts law in general, and the special contracts law. The contracts studied in this second part are those of sale, lease and sub-contracting, and the distribution contracts and financing contracts.

Program

I - Introduction
1.Function and historical evolution of the law of contract; freedom and contractual justice; the so-called contract crisis; new contractual typology, and contractual intervention by the State.
2.The principle of vagueness in contract law and its principal impacts (typical contracts, non-typical contracts, mixed and combined contracts).
3.The subjective change in contractual relations: the cessation of contractual position (reference to transfer of credit, subrogation and assumption of debts).

II – Chief characteristics of civil nominated contracts
1.Preliminary considerations.
2.Civil nominated contracts.

III – Contracts for sale, lease, and sub-contracting

IV - Commercial contracts

Main Bibliography

COSTA, Mário Júlio de Almeida, Direito das Obrigações, 9ª ed., Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 2001.
FARIA, Jorge Ribeiro de, Direito das Obrigações, I e II, reimp., Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 2001.
Leitão, Luís Menezes, Direito das obrigações, vol. III, 2.ª ed., Coimbra, Almedina, 2004
LIMA, Pires de e VARELA, Antunes, Código Civil Anotado, Coimbra, Coimbra Editora.
VARELA, João Antunes, Das Obrigações em Geral, I, 10ª ed., Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 2000 Das Obrigações em Geral, II, 7ª ed. (reimp.) Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 2001.

Complementary Bibliography

AAVV, Contratos: Actualidade e Evolução, Porto, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 1997.
AAVV, Direito das Obrigações, 3º vol., Contratos em Especial, Compra e venda, Sociedade, Mútuo, Mandato, Empreitada, sob a coordenação de António Menezes Cordeiro, 2ª ed., Lisboa, AAFDL, 1991.
ALMEIDA, Carlos Ferreira de, Contratos, Conceito, Fontes, Formação, Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 2000.

Campos, Diogo Leite de, A locação financeira, Lisboa, Lex, 1995
Cordeiro, António Menezes, Direito bancário, 2.ª ed., Coimbra, Almedina, 2001

DUARTE, Rui Pinto, Tipicidade e Atipicidade dos Contratos, Colecção Teses, Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 2000.
MARTINEZ, Pedro Romano, Direito das Obrigações (parte especial), Contratos, Compra e venda, Locação, Empreitada, 2ª ed., Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 2001.
— O sub-contrato, Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 1989.
Monteiro, António Pinto, Contrato de agência. Anotação, 5.ª ed., Coimbra, Almedina, 2005
Monteiro, António Pinto, Direito comercial. Contratos de distribuição comercial, Coimbra, Almedina, 2002

PINTO, Carlos Alberto da Mota, Cessão da Posição Contratual, Colecção Teses, Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 1982.
RIBEIRO, Joaquim de Sousa, O Problema do Contrato - As Cláusulas Contratuais Gerais e o Princípio da Liberdade Contratual, Colecção Teses, Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 1999.
ROPPO, Enzo, O Contrato, Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 1988.
TELLES, Inocêncio Galvão, Manual dos Contratos em Geral, 3ª ed. (reimp.), Lisboa, Lex, 1995.
Vasconcelos, L. Miguel Pestana de, Dos contratos de cessão financeira (factoring), Coimbra, Universidade de Coimbra/Coimbra Editora, 1999
Vasconcelos, L. Miguel Pestana de, O contrato de franquia (franchising), Coimbra, Almedina, 2000.

VASCONCELOS, Pedro Pais de, Contratos Atípicos, Colecção Teses, Coimbra, Livraria Almedina, 1995.

Teaching methods and learning activities

The course is a semester course, with four theory-practical classes taught each week. These classes include theoretical course work and a component designed to stimulate the critical capacity of the students, and help their perception of the problems studied from a practical point of view, by resolving practical cases and analysing jurisprudence. This capacity to understand and resolve situations of a practical nature, plus the ability to explain and argue, are assessed by written examination at the end of the academic year.

Evaluation Type

Evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

The marks the student must get have to be equal or higher than 10, in a scale of [0,20] in one of the following hypotheses:

a)Written final examination;
b)Oral final examination

Calculation formula of final grade

Are the marks obtained in the examinations referred in “Frequency Attaining”

Examinations or Special Assignments

None

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

General Law and rules enforced in FDUP.

Classification improvement

Is obtained by doing a written or an oral examination