What information must a party give before concluding a contract?
The Civil Code imposes a pre-contractual duty to inform: a party who knows information of decisive importance for the other's consent must disclose it, where the other legitimately does not know it. The duty does not extend to the estimated value of the performance.
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Source
- Source
- Civil Code, article 1112-1
- Acts
- French Civil Code
- Area
- Contract, sale and consumer
- Checked
- 2026-09-21
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