英文摘要 |
The filling of contract gaps is a special way of interpreting contracts. Contract gaps have a narrow definition and broad definition. Because of the certainty of the narrow definition of contract gaps and since some methods to fill such gaps can also be used for broad contract gaps, only the former is discussed here. To be defined as a contract gap, it must violate the contract plan and entertain incompleteness. The contract gaps will happen due to issues that should have been agreed by parties in the contract. To fill a contract gap, firstly we accept a follow-up agreement from the parties. When the agreement is not made, the judge will seek appropriate mandatory rules, arbitrary rules or advocacy rules, including the rules of specific contracts in ''China Contract Law'' , Article 61, 62 of ''China Contract Law'' . If the above operations are not suitable, a supplementary contractual interpretation should be used to fill the gaps. The mentioned methods of gaps filling have a sequence of applying, ae well as exceptions. Trading habits are also factors that should be considered, which can be seen as an independent method of filling contractual gaps or part of the supplementary contractual interpretation. After applying specific methods to fill contractual gaps, final review and trade-off based on the principle of good faith and fairness should be applied, in order to achieve the most appropriate solution. |