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6 - Simple Mandate Contract

from Part III - Service Contracts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Christoph Müller
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Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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This chapter explores the simple mandate contract which is governed by Articles 394–406 of the Swiss Code of Obligations. This chapter commences with the sources of this contract, its main characteristics as well as its delimitations with other contracts. This chapter then moves on to discuss the formation of the simple mandate contract before discussing in detail the obligations of the agent and the principal. These include the agent’s obligation to provide the promised services, duty to render the services in a diligent and faithful manner, duty to give an account, duty to return and duty to transfer vested rights as well as the principal’s duty to reimburse expenses, duty to discharge the agents from their obligations, duty to compensate for any loss incurred and obligation to pay fees. Finally, this chapter explores the end of the simple mandate contract either by termination or due to legal reasons.

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  • Simple Mandate Contract
  • Christoph Müller, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Book: Swiss Contract Law in International Commercial Arbitratio
  • Online publication: 27 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108368667.009
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  • Christoph Müller, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Book: Swiss Contract Law in International Commercial Arbitratio
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108368667.009
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  • Christoph Müller, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Book: Swiss Contract Law in International Commercial Arbitratio
  • Online publication: 27 July 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108368667.009
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