Concerning some legal consequences of accepting performance from a counterparty under a contract


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This study is based on those provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation that are examples of the application in civil circulation of the rule prohibiting contradictory and inconsistent behavior of its participants. The author analyzed certain provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation where the prohibition of such behavior is associated with the resolution of a dispute between the parties regarding the fact of conclusion of a contract (paragraph 3 of Article 432 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), its invalidity (paragraph 2 of Article 431.1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation), and the possibility of applying the right to withdraw from a contract (paragraph 5 of Article 450.1 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation). The entire scope of interpretation and the entire sphere of practical application of these provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation are beyond the scope of this study, so the author limited himself only to the issues related to the acceptance of performance by the party to the contract, which subsequently attempts to recognize the contract as not concluded, invalid, or to withdraw from it. When analyzing the specified provisions of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, the author identified the conditions and procedure for their application, the distinctive features of each rule under study under different articles of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, their relationship with each other, their general goal to preserve the contract supported by the general nature of the consequences of accepting performance under the contract. Conclusions were made that indicate the general opinion of the legislator on the bad faith of one of the parties to the contract, on its general attitude to the contradictory and inconsistent behavior of the party to the contract after accepting performance from the counterparty. The author also concludes that the legislator puts the fact of acceptance of performance under the contract first in the list of legally significant circumstances confirming the validity of the contract.

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Igor Vladimirovich Mashtakov

Togliatti State University

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Email: i.mashtakov@tltsu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3797-9158

PhD (Law), Associate Professor, assistant professor of Chair “Civil Law and Procedure”

Russian Federation, 445020, Togliatti, Belorusskaya Street, 14

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