The contractor may refuse the alterations required by the client where such alterations affect plans, schemes or other documents on which the parties had agreed.
Civil Code
2015 English source edition · Current applicability not established.
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Article 2316
3. Contractor Refusing Alterations · Preserved transcription; page attribution imported from the source collection. Verify against the original.
The contractor may also refuse the alterations where they are of such a nature or importance that they constitute a work absolutely different to the agreed work.
The work shall be deemed to be absolutely different to the agreed work where it implies an alteration exceeding by twenty per cent the value at which the original work was or could have been estimated.