Law of Obligations

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

The Basic Concepts of Law

Course Contents

This course content is, in general, the basic concepts of the law of obligations, legal transactions, freedom of contract, sources of obligations, contracts, tort and unjust enrichment, performance of debts, breach of contract, results of non-performance of debts, obligator's liability and termination of debt's relations.

Weekly Schedule

1) Concept of obligation, relativity of obligation's relations, obligation and liability, exception and plea, sources of obligations, obligations which arise from legal transactions, some types of legal transactions.
2) Making a contract, offer, acceptence, the moment when the contract is completed, public promise of reward, form.
3) A promise to make contract, unsuitability between volition and declaration, colorable transaction, reasons of invalidity of the mind (mistake, ruse and intimidation), the results of invalidity of the mind.
4) Freedom of contract and limits, lesion, legal transactions' nullity, representation.
5) Obligations which arise from torts, the concept of objective liability, employer's liability.
6) The other types of objective liability.
7) Joint and several liability, damages for pecuniary loss, damages for mental anguish, actions for damages.
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Obligations which arise from unjust enrichment, performance of debts (concept of performance, performance and legal capacity, performance and power of disposition, parties of performance, subject of performance).
10) Place of performance, time of performance, default by creditor.
11) Breach of contract, action for performance and compulsory execution, impossibility because of obligator's fault.
12) Results of not fulfilling the obligations, obligator's liability, liability of assistant's who helps the performance acts.
13) Default by debtor.
14) Termination of debt's relations.
15) Solidary obligations, conditional obligations, bargain money, forfeit money, penal clause, assignment of claims, delegation.
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Turgut Akıntürk, Duygu Ateş Akıntürk, Borçlar Hukuku: Genel Hükümler, Özel Hükümler
2- Ahmet M. Kılıçoğlu, Borçlar Hukuku Genel Hükümler,
3- Fikret Eren, Borçlar Hukuku Genel Hükümler
4- Haluk Nami Nomer, Borçlar Hukuku Genel Hükümler

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Self Study

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	30%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	70%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required