Authors : Mehdi Pirhaji and Sayyed Mohammad Hadi Mahdavi-Ardekani
Abstract: Fulfillment of obligation is one the most important legal issues. It is the simplest, as well as the most natural way in which the obligor can release him/herself from obligations which are upon him/her. The 1st note of Article 264 of Iranian Civil Code stipulates fulfillment of obligation as one of the causes of discharge of obligation. Therefore, the obligation will be discharged when the obligor fulfills his/her obligations. Articles 265-282 of Iranian Civil Code discuss the issue. There exit no separated section titled contract law in Iranian Civil Code and most of the articles related to this subject are discussed under the title of contracts and obligations from Article 183 onwards and legislator has examined it. This study makes a comparison between Iranian private law and English law, by examining the fulfillment of obligations as an important cause of discharge of obligations. The objective of this study, is to remove the ambiguities of contract law, reaching a better understanding of contract law in Iran and the quality of obligations which may be discharged by fulfillment of obligations. The data gathered for this study, are library type and the main instruments by which the data were gathered were: Books, journals, court judgments and internet data. This is an analytical, critical and comparative study.
Mehdi Pirhaji and Sayyed Mohammad Hadi Mahdavi-Ardekani, 2014. Comparative Study of Fulfillment of Obligation in Iranian Civil Code and Law of England. The Social Sciences, 9: 314-320.