{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:article:1379","workId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:civil:2015:en","title":"Contracts Contrary to Good Morals, Public Order or Mandatory Rules of Law","number":"1379","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1379/","hierarchy":{"book":"BOOK V - OBLIGATIONS","title":"TITLE I - CONTRACTS IN GENERAL","chapter":"Chapter 3. - Validity","section":"Section 4. - Object of the Contract","paragraph":null},"paragraphs":[{"id":"p1","number":"1","text":"A contract which by its content or necessary implication is contrary to good morals or public order is null and void.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1379/#p1","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":385,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/385/?article=1379&paragraph=p1#article-1379-p1"}]},{"id":"p2","number":"2","text":"Violation of a mandatory rule of law entails nullity of the contract; if, however, such a rule of law is intended solely for the protection of one of the parties to the contract, the contract may only be avoided by that party.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1379/#p2","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":385,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/385/?article=1379&paragraph=p2#article-1379-p2"}]},{"id":"p3","number":"3","text":"Mandatory rules of law which do not purport to invalidate contracts contrary to them, shall not entail that these contracts are null and void or may be avoided.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/civil-code-2015/article/1379/#p3","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"civil-code-2015-en","pdfPage":385,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/civil-code-2015/page/385/?article=1379&paragraph=p3#article-1379-p3"}]}],"caution":"This is the 2015 English-language edition attributed in its front matter to the Ministry of Justice. Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation, later changes, or whether the text is currently in force. Nine passages are incomplete in the available scan and are identified where they occur."}