Index
absolute impossibility, 126
absolute impossibility to perform, 188
actual intention, 34
added value, 132
adhering party, 107
adverse effect, 163
affirm, 123
agency contacts, 75
Agency Law, 63
agreement, 105
Al Abdin Sharar, Z., 2
Al Khulaifi, M., 2
Al-Amoury, A., 33
Al-Gamal, R., 1
Al-Kaabi, M. H., 103
Allah Ta’ālā, 40
Al-Ouji, Mustafa, 77
Al-Shadhly, Yassin
The Brief in the New Qatari Companies Law, 80
Anastasiou, D., 52
anticipated breach, 175
apparent authority, 57
apparent importance, 114
Articles of Association, 80
asset management sector, 204
assignment of debt, 196
assignment of rights, 195
Assim, U.M., 51
Austen-Baker, R., 213
authenticated agency contract, 75
authenticated general power of attorney, 76
authorise, 124
Authority for Endowments (Waqf), 120
authorization, 122
Badr al-Dı̄n al-‘Ainı̄, 39
banking sector, 204
bargaining, 168
Basic Law, 204
Bassiouni, C. M., 7
Benchor, G., 4
beneficiary, 201
bilateral agreements, 16
black lists, 110
Boggs, Squire Patton, 62
bonds, 197
borrowing/lending money, 155
British authorities, 3
brokerage, 67
bylaws, 105
Cairo Court of Appeal, 9
capacity, 46
Cartwright, John, 77
Castellucci, I., 6
‘causa’ (causa obligationis), 43
Central Bank, 204
cheques, 168
Civil and Commercial Law, 4
Civil Aviation Authority, 189
civil law jurisprudence, 143
clarity, lack of, 86
colonial law, 3
commercial agency contract, 66
Commercial Agents Register, 62
commercial registry, 83
Commercial Registry Law (CRL), 80
commercial transaction, 15
commercial/trade law, 106
commission agency, 65
common intention,
common law system, 160
common law traditions, 37
common mistake, 112
common/identical errors, 125
commonality of intention, 34
Company’s Contract, 82
competence, 46
concept of frustration, 190
concerned party, 121
conflicts of laws, 104
consent, 68
construction, 109
consumer law, 5
consumer transaction, 118
contract agency, 64
contract agent, 64
contract law, 167
contract model, 26
Contract Regulations, 209
contract(s)
definition of, 13
formation of, 210
interpretation of, 87
nullity of, 169
termination of, 219
unfair terms in, 105
contractual damages, 159
contractual fairness, 89
contractual freedom, 51
contractual interpretation, 92
contractual obligation, 156
contractual rights, 12
conversion of contract, 133
corporate veil, 81
Court of Cassation, 8, 10, 13, 15, 24, 33, 35, 36, 38, 53, 61, 66, 88, 89, 91, 92, 94, 95, 97, , 103, 109, 112, 114, 138, 174
craftsmen, 177
credit card, 109
Criminal Code, 114
customary tradition, 28
customer, 218
damage limitation clauses, 151
damage/loss, 202
debtor/obligor, 184
deceit, 202
decisive oath, 91
defective consent, 121
delicts, 151
delictual damages, 169
delictual obligation, 156
detrimental reliance on a promise, 168
direct cause, 128
direct losses, 158
discerning (mumayyiz), 48
disparity, 106
disputes, 104
distributorship, 66
Doi, Abdur Rahman I., 14
Domestic Workers Law, 29
double recovery, 105
duty of care, 58
economic crisis, 189
effective date, 29
Egyptian public policy, 9
ekalah, 172
Electronic Commerce Law, 16
emergency/necessary maintenance, 166
Emmanuel, Quinn, 191
employee, 181
employment, 105
employment/labour contracts, 29
English case law, 209
English High Court, 174
English Limitation Act, 218
English Misrepresentation Act, 113
English Precedent Act, 10
environmental impact assessments (EIAs), 93
essential element, 25
EU law, 104
Europe, 110
European Union (EU), 110
evidentiary function, 69
excessively imbalanced, 118
existence of a contract, 114
an explicit statutory requirement, 133
explicit term, 156
exploiter, 118
fair dealing, 95
fairly/reasonably loss, 216
Fee Simple Absolute, 77
FIDIC Standard Contracts, 215
financial crisis, 101
financial data, 1
financial distress, 101
financial risks, 11
financial sector, 204
financial service, 113
fiqh, 7
foetus in utero, 46
Foreign Capital Investment Law, 204
formation, 99
fraudulent act, 114
fraudulent misrepresentation, 212
freedom of action, 63
French jurisprudence, 161
full liability, 107
fundamental human rights, 50
gap filling, 92
GCC courts, 10
general agency, 62
German law, 108
gift transaction, 73
gifts, 70
global financial crisis, 190
God, 188
good cause, 128
gratuity, 175
grey lists, 110
guarantee constitute contracts, 83
guarantee contract, 84
habitational condition, 166
Hakim bin Hizam, 22
Hamad bin Khalifa University, 10
H·anafı̄s, 48
Hanbali school of thought, 22
Hanbalı̄s, 48
hardship, 191
Hatzimihail, N., 6
heirs, 193
Hughes, T.P., 22
Human Resources Law, 29
Hussiem, H., 53
Ibn AbdulBarr, 40
Ibn Abideen, 14
Ibn al-Jawzı̄, Abū al-Faraj, 23
Ibn Arafah, 39
Ibn Qudama, 12
Ibn Rushd, Abū al-Walı̄d, 50
Ibn Taymiyya, 15
ijma, 7
illegality, 117
illness, 132
ilm usūl al-fiqh, 7
imbecility (al-maʿtūh), 48
implied term, 156
impossibility, 188
impossibility of fulfilment, 190
impulsive motive, 128
Imrān bin al-h·us·ain, 40
incomplete competence, 49
incorporating contract, 207
incorporation problem,
incoterms clauses, 162
inflation, 154
informal gift, 139
innocent misrepresentation, 212
inspection of sold goods, 163
insurance, 193
insurance sector, 204
intentional wrongdoing, 160
interdicted persons, 50
interim penalty, 149
International Chamber of Commerce, 209
interpretation, 109
intoxication, 132
ipso facto, 188
Islamic inheritance law, 126
Islamic law tradition, 21
Islamic prohibition, 154
Islamic scholarship, 12
kafala, 51
kafil, 51
Kessler, F., 50
Khan Niazi, L.A., 20
Khansary, M., 22
Khayal, M., 101
khiyār al-majlis, 23
Kourides, P. N., 4
Krishnan, J. K., 2
Kuwait, 71
labor rights, 105
labour contracts, 137
Land Registration System, 116
landlord, 179
lapse of time, 125
law (legislation), 77
laws, 207
lease agreement, 181
lease contract(s), 15, , 32, 101, 136, 165, 172, 179, 181, 203
performance in, 165
termination of, 179
legal capacity, 47
legal competence, 52
legal fact, 77
lex specialis, 45
life-time employment, 137
limited consideration, 72
limited duration, 63
liquefied natural gas (LNG), 1
literal construction, 86
literal interpretation, 87
Lucente, F., 57
mahal al-aqd, 13
majilis, 22
majlis ala’aquid, 7
makful, 51
Malikı̄s, 48
maqāsid al-sharia, 7
market expert, 28
market price, 165
Masud, M.
Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and their Judgments, 3
material damages, 157
materialisation, 169
Memorandum of Association of the company, 54
mental disability, 51
mental distress, 139
Middle East and North Africa (MENA), 4
Minister of Economy and Commerce, 205
Ministerial Committee for the Settlement of Rental Disputes, 181
Ministry of Commerce and Industry (MoCI), 62
Ministry of Education, 136
Ministry of Municipalities, 24
Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning, 28
Ministry of Public Health, 138
misapprehension, 114
Montagu-Smith, T., 2
moral claim, 178
moral duties, 139
mortgage agreement, 147
Muller, C., 3
multilateral agreements, 16
multiple agents, 60
mutual agreement, 172
natural obligations, 139
natural persons, 12
negative action, 129
negligence, 139
negligent misrepresentation, 212
negotiation, 99
Nizar Hamzeh, A., 3
non-authenticated agency contract, 74
non-discerning (ghayr mumayyiz), 48
non-essential element, 25
non-fraudulent contract, 116
non-fulfilment, 102
non-performance, 214
non-Qatari Capital, 45
not to order, 195
notification, 152
novate, 186
novator, 186
Nyazee, Imran Ahsan Khan, 50
obiter dicta, 188
operationalization, 121
orce majeure, 188
original debtor, 194
ostensible authority, 57
Ottoman Empire, 3
overriding objective, 208
ownership, transfer of, 144
Pan-Arab private law, 7
partial (incomplete) competence, 50
partial competence, 49
partial incompetence, 50
partial liability, 107
Pasha, A. Cevdet
Al-Majalla: The Civil Code of the Ottoman Empire, 3
perfection, 79
performance, 213
performance gap, 147
personal injury, 139
personal liberty, 50
Polymenopoulou, E., 7
Pothier, Robert Joseph, 159
Powers, Paul R., 31
pre-contractual phase, 103
pre-payment acts, 100
price index, 165
prima facie, 174
private agency contract, 75
private law, 120
Procurement Law, 120
promisor, , 168
promotional puffs, 115
Promulgation of Labour Law, 181
provisional contractual damages, 159
Proxy Law, 62
public contracts, 30
public law, 120
public morality, 127
Purohit, P., 2
Qassim, Mohammad Hassan, 156,
Qatar Civil Code, 79
Qatar Companies Law (QCL), 80
Qatar Development Bank, 135
Qatari Cassation Court, 101
Qatari citizens, 11
Qatari civil law, 93
Qatari Criminal Code, 114
Qatari economy, 62
Qatari entity, 62
Qatari judgments, 9
Qatari legal order, 204
Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), 1
Qatari society, 71
Qatar Police College, 11
Qatar’s private law, 6
Qatar’s public policy, 138
Qatar University (QU), 10
QFC entity, 213
QFC Laws and Regulations, 205
QFC legal system, 204
QICDRC, 104
qiyas, 7
Quran, 7
Rayner, E., 14
real estate, 195
Real Estate Lease Registration Office, 28
reasonable care, 141
reasonableness, 132
reasonable reliance, 42
reasonable time, 27
red hand rule, 109
reduction of contract, 132
Reed, R., 2
referee, 28
reimbursement, 184
res judicata, 178
rescind, 124
rescission, 171
revoke, 124
riba, 154
right to authorize, 121
right to revoke, 121
Ruchdi, M., 1
rules of law, 207
rules of negligence, 169
Saleh, N., 210
Sayyiduna Isma’il, 40
sense, 141
Series, L., 52
servitude, 138
settlement, 183
severability, 168
severe adverse effect, 143
Shafi’is, 40
sham, 136
shareholders, 82
Shura Council, 206
silence, 21
siyāsat al-sharia, 7
slavery, 138
Sloth-Nielsen, J., 51
Smits, J.
Contract Law: A Comparative Introduction, 34
sold goods, 134
Sole Proprietorship, 81
Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, 1
special agency, 56
special tripartite statute of limitations, 177
specific performance, 142
spirit of law, 141
standard form contracts, 106
standards of care, 63
stare decisis, 10
State Council, 103
statutory obligation, 153
Stein, M.A., 52
stipulator, 201
sub-agent, 60
subject of the contract, 126
subject-matter, 68, 172
existence of, 126
identification of, 126
legality of, 127
subject of the contract, 125
subject of the obligation, 125
substitution, 195
subterfuge, 116
Sudan, 11
sunna, 7
suppliers, 108
Synder, David V., 169
taste trial, 28
termination, 171
terms implied in law, 93
terms of the contract, 201
three tier system, 140
timeframe, 182
trade representative, 66
Trading Regulation Law, 5
transfer of a right, 219
transfer of an obligation, 220
transferor/assignor, 194
Truby, J., 45
truth, 91
UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), 51
unconditional acceptance, 24
undisclosed agency, 57
undue influence, 118
unfair term, 106
unforeseen circumstances, 190
UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC), 9, 17, 35, 37, 38, 43, 88, 89, 91, 119, 205, 209, 210
unilateral act, 175
unilateral error, 125
unintentional wrongdoing, 160
United Arab Emirates (UAE), 71
unlawful, 117
unlawful acts, 151
unlawful cause, 128
unlawful conduct, 202
unlawful instillment of justifiable fear, 117
unlawfulness, 117
unlimited duration, 63
valid causation, 150
a valid contractual relationship, 167
validity of consent, 211
value, 161
van der Merwe, L., 6
Vogenauer, S., 205
voidability, 124
voidity, 124
vulnerable person, 202
wa’ād, 39
waiving good faith, 103
Wakala agreement, 2
Walker, M., 6
waqf, 176
warning function, 69
warranty, 117
weaker parties, 105
Weiss, B. G., 7
Welchman, L., 47
Western law schools, 10
World War II, 4
worry and anxiety, 216
written notice, 143
Zeng, D. Z., 1
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