英文摘要 |
A new provision in the draft of China’s Civil Code, namely Article 353(3)on the ''breaching party's right to termination'' , has attracted attention and become very controversial issue. The case raising the issue, ''Xinyu Co. vs. Feng Yumei'' , has left a lot of misunderstandings demanding clarification. The existing Chinese law supplies inadequate rules on termination of long-term contracts. And in order to break the deadlocks of contract, judges have been obliged to construct an agreement of the parties to terminate the contract by implication. However, insufficiency in law should be improved by legislation. Since such an issue of deadlock of contract is not an issue only existing in China, comparative legal studies may provide help. Based on a comparative study of both German and Japanese laws on termination of long-term contract, the author suggests the Chinese legislature to follow the German BGB§314, which is on termination, for a compelling reason, of contracts for the performance of a continuing obligation. The author has also introduced two German cases, in order to show how to apply the rule on termination of long-term contract for a compelling reason. |