The main goal of this study was to perform a research on the interpretation and application of art. 2158 paragraph 2 of the Civil Code, especially in the activity of natural persons. The research plan drawn up for such purpose, considered first of all, the presentation of the general aspects of money loan, and subsequently the examination of the restrictions imposed to loan granting with interest for natural or legal persons, who do not perform...

The mechanism or technique of lifting the corporate veil, which consists of ignoring the legal personality when it is used by associates as a schield for defrauding creditors is regulated in several normative acts. In corporate matters, relevant are the provisions of art. 2371 of Law no. 31/1990, which is the main object of our analysis. In the Preliminaries, we review the general rationale for seting up legal entities, particularly companies...

This paper examines the EB-5 immigration visa, created by the United States through the Immigration Act of 1990. The Immigration Investor Programm allows immigrants to earn their Green Card / American Citizenship by investing in American businesses. Investments range from commercial real estate to solar energy plants and could only be received by an economic unit defined as a Regional Center. It also focuses on the legal aspects of regional ce...

By inserting the arbitration clause in their contract, the Parties agree that they shall both bear the costs of the arbitration proceedings equally.In its decision regarding the costs, the arbitral tribunal will consider any and all of the circumstances it deems relevant, including if and to what extent the each party carried its part of the arbitration in a time and cost-efficient manner.Regarding the subsequent allocation of cost...

The issues regarding the civil liability of the professional incites increasingly the interest of the theoreticians, and even more of the legal practitioners being often cited in the settlement of the cases subject to judgment. Our analysis aims to outline the main references which rank this legal institution, trying to sustain with solid arguments the need for the acknowledgement of freestanding liability, separated in relation to other assu...

The new Civil Code innovates the sanction of contract rescission as far as substantial law is concerned, but an adaptation of the procedural law occurs as well, Government Emergency Ordinance nr. 80/2013 concerning the judicial stamp duty being enacted especially in order to adapt the payment of tax to the new judicial institutions created by this legal norms codex. By excluding the institution of finding the unilateral extrajudicial rescissio...

Germany’s Federal Court of Justice continues to elliminate from consumer credit contracts those fees which it regards as unfair, ruling out that on the grounds of the lack of counterperformance there is an imbalance between the parties rights and liabilities. Two recent decisions, dating November 2016 and May 2017 (XI ZR 552/15 and XI 308/15) extend the control of the unfair character of terms to the Bauspar contractual savings scheme, which ...

By approving the Law regarding datio in solutum, the Parliament intended to create a special form for an old institution – datio in solutum – especially by eliminating the necessity of obtaining the consent of the creditor for this mean of accomplishing through payment the obligations. The solution addopted produces some effects, which are unclear as being avoided through a general derogation from the Civil code, and could lea...

After the intensification of the banking credit activity in the latter part of the 2000s, the economic crisis, the devaluation of the national currency and the decline of the purchasing power, the consumers that were parts in the credit contracts initiated legal actions against the commercial banks.Although the national legislation came into force several years before, the disputes in the matter of the protection of the consumer law issu...

The hereby article aims to present a short analisys of the legal grounds of the claims filed by the borrowers who were afforded loans in HUF, claiming the repayment of the loans at the exchange rate applied by the bank on the date of advance of the sum borrowed and the repayment of the loan instalments in RON, but, most importantly, of the legal grounds of the few decisions by which these claims were granted.There is an unprecedented ten...