This article is an in-depth study of the Romanian and French interwar and postwar doctrine with reference to the oblique action, but from the perspective of the new Civil Code. Since the text of art. 1560-1561 NCC which regulates this action is similar to that of art. 1623-1630 of the Civil Code of Quebec, we have also tried to relate it to the doctrine and case law of this Canadian province. We have also analyzed the judicial practice which ...