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Obligatory Force

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  1. What force do valid obligations arising from contracts have between the parties under Article 1159?
  2. Under Article 1315, do parties become bound only by the exact words expressly stipulated?
  3. May validity or compliance with a contract be left solely to one party’s will under Article 1308?
  4. A party admits a valid contract and a due obligation, but refuses solely because a better commercial deal later became …
  5. A contract leaves performance determination to a third person. That person issues a decision but it has not yet been ma…
  6. A supply contract provides that one party alone may decide whether any of its own promises will bind at all, while the …
  7. A properly appointed third person communicates a performance determination to both contracting parties, but the determi…
  8. Explain the relationship between contractual force of law and mandatory legal limits.
  9. Explain why contractual compliance cannot be left to a party’s unrestricted will.
  10. Discuss the safeguards for a third person’s determination of performance.
  11. Under Article 1191, what principal remedies may the injured party choose for qualifying noncompliance in reciprocal obl…
  12. Does Article 1191 recognize damages only with resolution and never with fulfillment?