Chapter I. Legal will - the foundation of consent / 17
Section I. Psychological will and legal will / 17
Section II. Legal will. Training, principles, evolution / 19
§ 1. Formation of the legal will / 19
§ 2. Principles of legal will / 20
§ 3. Evolution of the legal will / 23
A. Internal will and declared will. The national conception / 23
B. The theory of the declaration of will and the "objectification" of the legal will / 25
C. Mircea Durma and the notification of the declared will / 26
Section III. The civil legal act, manifestation of complex will. Unilateral acts, multilateral acts and collective acts / 27
Section IV. The particularities of the will in unilateral legal acts / 30
Section V. The limits of the principle of contractual freedom / 32
§ 1. Autonomy of will in the conception of the Civil Code from 1804 / 32
§ 2. Contemporary contract law / 37
A. The theory of "social voluntarism" / 37
B. Postmodernism and the "growth crisis" of the contract / 41
Chapter II. Contractual consent - essential condition of validity / 43
Section I. Validity conditions of the civil legal act / 43
§ 1. Definition of conditions / 44
§ 2. Classification of conditions / 46
§ 3. Enumeration of the conditions of the civil legal act / 49
A. Capacity of the legal act / 49
B. Object of the legal act / 50
C. Cause of the legal act / 51
D. Form of the legal act / 51
Section II. The notion, requirements and evolution of consent / 53
§ 1. Definition of consent / 53
§ 2. Requirements for the validity of the consent / 54
§ 3. Evolution of the concept of consent / 59
Section III. Form of manifestation of consent / 63
§ 1. Consensualism and formalism / 63
§ 2. Evolution of principles / 64
Section IV. Conclusion of the contract - "Convergence" of the offer with acceptance / 71
§ 1. Considerations regarding the contract conclusion mechanism. "Classical scheme" of the agreement of wills / 71
§ 2. Offer to contract / 72
A. Definition / 72
B. Conditions of the offer / 73
C. Binding force of the offer / 74
D. Revocation of the offer before the deadline / 78
E. Offer and promise to contract / 80
§ 3. Acceptance of the offer / 82
§ 4. The time and place of concluding the contract / 83
A. The moment of concluding the contract / 83
B. Place of conclusion of the contract and its importance / 87
§ 5. Contemporary modifications of the "classic scheme" / 88
A. The principles of the "classical scheme" / 88
B. The current "decrease" of the role of the agreement of wills in the conclusion of the contract. Multiplication of contract "models" / 88
C. Theory of adhesion contract / 89
Section V. Correlation "consent-form" in special contracts / 90
§ 1. Peculiarities of the correlation in the sale-purchase contract / 90
A. Applications of consent in the field of sales / 91
B. Form of sale-purchase contract / 98
C. Advertising of real estate sales / 99
§ 2. Consent and form in the donation contract / 101
A. Consent in the donation contract / 101
B. Form conditions. The principle of the solemnity of the donation / 101
C. Varieties of the manifestation of animus donandi / 103
Chapter III. The error – vice of consent / 109
Section I. The "classic" protection of consent. Contemporary elements / 109
§ 1. Defects of consent. Definition and regulation / 109
§ 2. Scope. New methods of protection / 111
Section II. The error. Definition and evolution / 113
§ 1. Definition of error-vice of consent / 113
§ 2. Evolution of error regulation / 115
Section III. Classification of error-vice of consent / 117
§ 1. General considerations / 117
§ 2. Classification of the error according to the consequences / 118
A. Obstacle error / 118
B. Serious error (error-vice of consent) / 121
C. Indifferent error (light error) / 126
§ 3. Classification of the error according to the nature of the falsely represented reality / 127
A. Error of fact / 128
B. Error of law / 128
Section IV. The structure and requirements of the error / 131
§ 1. Structure of the error-vice of consent / 131
§ 2. Requirements of error-vice of consent / 131
§ 3. Peculiarities of the error-vice of consent, in the matter of marriage / 136
Section V. Proof of error / 138
Section VI. Classical and innovative concepts in European doctrine. Notions of "legitimate error" and "vice of weakness" / 140
§ 1. Error in French law / 141
§ 2. Error in German law / 142
§ 3. Error in Italian law / 142
§ 4. Error in Spanish law / 145
§ 5. Error in Anglo-Saxon law / 146
§ 6. Reconsideration of the notion of error. The concept of "vice de faiblesse"V147
Section VII. Error-vice of consent and criminal law / 149
Chapter IV. Dolul - vice of consent and civil tort / 152
Section I. Notion, delimitation and legal nature / 152
§ 1. Notion / 152
§ 2. Delimitation of the dole from other institutions / 153
A. Cheating and fraud / 153
B. Doul and error / 155
C. Mourning and violence / 156
D. Grief and guilt / 156
E. Dolul and the criminal offense / 157
§ 3. Legal nature of the dole / 157
§ 4. The "ambivalence" of the doll / 159
Section II. Dowry in Romanian law / 160
Section III. Classification of the doll / 164
§ 1. Different classifications / 164
§ 2. Mourning through reluctance / 166
Section IV. The structure, requirements and evidence of the dole / 171
§ 1. Structure of the dole / 171
§ 2. Requirements of the dole / 172
A. Dole should be decisive for the conclusion of the legal act / 172
B. The mourning should come from the other side / 174
§ 3. Proof of intent / 175
Section V. Areas specific to the manifestation of the dol / 176
§ 1. Dolul in liberalities / 176
§ 2. Bereavement in family law / 178
Section VI. Dol in comparative law / 180
§ 1. Dowry in French law / 180
§ 2. Dowry in Italian and Spanish law / 181
§ 3. Dowry in Anglo-Saxon law / 183
Chapter V. Violence / 185
Section I. Notion and regulation / 187
§ 1. Definition of violence / 187
§ 2. Evolution of the regulation / 190
Section II. Classification of violence / 192
Section III. The structure of violence / 194
A. The objective element / 194
B. The subjective element / 195
Section IV. Requirements and proof of violence / 196
§ 1. Requirements of violence / 196
A. Fear should be decisive / 196
B. Violence should be just / 200
§ 2. Proof of violence / 202
Section V. Violence, vice of consent in the matter of marriage / 202
Section VI. Violence in comparative law / 204
§ 1. Violence in Italian law / 204
§ 2. Violence in French law / 206
§ 3. Violence in Spanish law / 208
§ 4. Violence in Anglo-Saxon law / 208
Chapter VI. Injury - vice of consent? / 211
Section I. Definition and regulation of the injury / 211
Section II. History of injury regulation / 213
§ 1. The European evolution of regulation / 213
§ 2. Scope of injury in the Civil Code from 1864 / 219
Section III. The structure and conditions of the injury / 222
§ 1. Structure of the lesion / 222
§ 2. Conditions of the injury / 222
Section IV. Sanction of injury / 223
Section V. Comparison between vices of consent / 223
§ 1. Similarities of vices of consent / 224
§ 2. Differences between defects of consent / 224
Chapter VII. "Traditional" and "specific" sanctions for failure to comply with the consent condition / 226
Section I. Preventive sanctions and curative sanctions / 226
Section II. The concept of nullity / 228
§ 1. Definition of nullity / 228
§ 2. Seat of the matter / 230
A. Regulations of the Civil Code from 1864 / 230
B. Regulations of the draft Civil Code (2004) / 230
C. Regulations of the Draft European Contract Code / 233
Section III. The evolution of the nullity concept / 234
§ 1. General aspects / 234
§ 2. The concept of nullity in European regulations / 235
Section IV. Delimitation of nullity by other civil institutions / 238
§ 1. Delimitation of the nullity of the resolution / 238
§ 2. Delimitation of the nullity of termination / 240
§ 3. Delimitation of the nullity of revocation / 241
§ 4. Delimitation of the nullity of expiration / 241
§ 5. Delimitation of the nullity of reduction / 242
§ 6. Delimitation of the nullity of unenforceability / 243
Section V. Nullity functions / 243
§ 1. Potential function / 244
§ 2. Operative function / 244
§ 3. Preventive function / 245
§ 4. Sanctioning function / 245
§ 5. Reparative function / 246
Section VI. Classification of annulments / 246
A. Absolute nullity and relative nullity / 246
B. Theory of non-existent documents / 247
C. Total nullity and partial nullity / 249
D. Express nullity and virtual nullity / 250
E. Judicial nullity and amicable nullity / 250
F. Nullity of substance and nullity of form / 250
Section VII. Causes of nullity in the matter of consent / 251
§ 1. "Specific" causes of absolute nullity / 251
§ 2. "Specific" causes of relative nullity / 253
Section VIII. The effects of the nullity of the civil legal act / 255
§ 1. Notion of effects of nullity / 255
§ 2. Principles of nullity effects / 256
A. The principle of retroactivity of nullity effects / 257
B. The principle of restoring the previous situation (restitutio in integrum) / 258
§ 3. The principle of annulment of the subsequent act as a result of the annulment of the initial act (resoluto iure dantis, resolvitur ius accipientis) / 259
§ 4. Rules of law that remove the principle quod nullum est, nullum producit efectum / 260
A. The principle of conversion of the legal act / 260
B. Rule of error communis facit ius / 262
C. The principle of tortious civil liability / 262
§ 5. imitating the effects of nullity / 263
A. Limitation of effects through partial nullity / 263
B. Confirmation / 264
Section IX. The legal regime of relative nullity - the "traditional" sanction of the vice of consent / 266
§ 1. Legal regime of absolute nullity / 266
A. Absolute nullity can be invoked by anyone who has an interest / 266
B. Absolute nullity is imprescriptible / 269
C. Absolute nullity, in principle, cannot be covered by confirmation / 271
§ 2. Legal regime of relative nullity / 272
A. The relative nullity can be invoked, in principle, only by the interested person / 273
B. The relative nullity is prescriptive / 274
C. Relative nullity can be covered by confirmation / 276
Section X. Regularization - "specific" sanction of civil contracts affected by a defect of consent / 277
Chapter VIII. Civil and criminal liability, subsequent to the voidable civil legal act for defects of consent / 281
Section I. Notion of civil liability. Delimitation / 281
§ 1. Definition of civil liability / 281
§ 2. Delimitation of tortious civil liability from contractual liability / 282
Section II. Tortious civil liability / 285
§ 1. Damage, condition of tortious civil liability / 286
A. Patrimonial and non-patrimonial damages / 286
B. The damage can be caused directly to the human person or the goods that he possesses / 287
C. Foreseeable damages and unforeseeable damages / 287
D. Instant damages and successive damages / 287
§ 2. Illegal act / 289
§ 3. The causal relationship between the illegal act and the damage / 293
A. The system of equivalence of conditions / 294
B. Proximate cause system / 294
C. The appropriate cause system / 294
D. The system of indivisible unity between cause and conditions / 295
§ 4. The fault of the person who caused the damage / 296
§ 5. Peculiarities of tortious liability in Romanian civil law / 301
Section III. The basis of contractual civil liability / 302
Section IV. Reparation of damage / 303
§ 1. The preventive function of tortious civil liability in case of alteration of consent / 305
§ 2. The reparative function of civil liability / 309
Section V. Sanction of defects of consent in criminal matters / 312
Chapter IX. Peculiarities of the formation of the consumer contract / 319
Section I. Characteristics of contracts concluded with consumers / 319
§ 1. The relationship: private law – right of consumption / 319
§ 2. The consumer contract "objective legal institution" / 320
Section II. Consumer information / 324
§ 1. Notion of the pre-contractual obligation to inform / 324
§ 2. Content of the information. Methods of realization / 326
§ 3. Consequences of failure to fulfill the obligation to inform / 330
§ 4. Obligation to advise / 333
Section III. Consumer protection against abusive clauses / 336
§ 1. Preliminary considerations / 336
§ 2. The principle of transparency in the drafting of contractual clauses / 337
§ 3. Abusive clauses / 338
A. Scope / 338
B. Notion of abusive clause / 340
C. Excepted clauses / 342
D. Finding abusive clauses / 349
Chapter X. The consumer's right to "unilateral denunciation": the problem of consent? / 355
Section I. Contracts concluded at a distance / 356
§ 1. Notion and scope / 357
§ 2. Peculiarities of consumer information / 360
§ 3. Conclusion of the contract / 362
§ 4. Execution of the contract / 364
§ 5. Peculiarities of contracts relating to financial services / 365
Section II. Contracts concluded outside commercial premises / 368
§ 1. Scope of regulation / 369
§ 2. Conclusion of the contract / 373
Section III. The consumer's right of unilateral denunciation / 374
§ 1. The concept of unilateral denunciation / 374
§ 2. The right of unilateral denunciation under the conditions of O.G. no. 130/2000 regarding consumer protection when concluding and executing distance contracts / 375
§ 3. The right of unilateral denunciation under the conditions of O.G. no. 85/2004 regarding distance contracts concluded between financial service providers and consumers / 377
§ 4. The right of unilateral denunciation under the conditions of O.G. no. 106/1999 regarding contracts concluded between merchants and consumers (in places not intended for commercial activity) / 379
§ 5. Legal nature of the consumer's right of "unilateral denunciation" / 381
BIBLIOGRAPHY / 386
I. Treatises, courses, monographs / 386
II. Studies, articles, notes, comments / 403
III. Published jurisprudence / 414