CONTRACT AND TORTS ACCORDING TO THE ACT ON OBLIGATIONS OF FORMER YUGOSLAVIA: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Abstract

In this article, the author maps out the origins and common legal concepts shared by both the Romano-Germanic family of laws and the common law family, implemented in the legal systems that inherited the Act on Obligations from the former Yugoslavia. The article offers a minute and comprehensive analysis of major legal concepts and classifications utilized in contracts and torts such as: the subjective vs. the objective (strict) liability, the proven vs. the presumed liability, the contractual vs. the delictual liability, the material liability vs. the non-pecuniary (emotional) liability etc.