LIMITY UPLATŇOVANIA ZMLUVNEJ POKUTY V SPOTREBITEĽSKÝCH ZMLUVÁCH

• Authors: Šťastová Regina , Vozár Jozef

Title variants

EN

Limits of application of contractual penalty in consumer contracts

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The contractual penalty serves both as means of protection for the creditor and as means of ensuring compliance with the contractual obligations of the debtor. The creditor, as well as the potential one, aims to protect himself, and in the case of business obligations, also his business activity. The degree of creditor protection, however, is limited by the special status of subjects in consumer relations, where instead of entrepreneur the other party is a specific subject, namely the consumer. Therefore, the aim of the contribution is to define the current limits and challenges in the area of application of the contractual penalty in consumer obligation relations, where the legislator assumes a certain higher level of consumer protection resulting from his status. It is possible that in some cases the use of a contractual penalty will be marked as an unacceptable contractual term, resulting in the total invalidity closure of contractual penalty.

Keywords

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GUARANTEE OF OBLIGATION; CONTRACTUAL PENALTY; CONSUMER; CONSUMER PROTECTION

• Publisher: Institute of State and Law of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Právny obzor. Teoretický časopis pre otázky štátu a práva (Juridical Review. Theoretical journal for the questions of state and law)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 107
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 488 – 506

Contributors

author

Šťastová Regina

• Ústav štátu a práva SAV, v. v. i., Klemensova 19, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0009-0005-9569-8759

author

Vozár Jozef

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8171-6822

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/pravnyobzor.2024.5.03