Main contract clauses
International contracts - strategies and main clauses

Although all clauses in a contract are legal, such as the payment clause, some clauses appear "more legal" than others.

Before going into detail on some of them, it is important to recall the French context and to insist on the principle of autonomy of will, on the binding force of contracts (pacta sunt servanda), and on the notion of the economy of the contract, which requires a certain balance between the parties, without running the risk of forcing one of them into non-performance.

If the result of the negotiation is to impose unbalanced obligations on one of the parties, the risk of default, i.e. non-performance,...