Umowa o dzieło jako zobowiązanie rezultatu
A Contract for Specific Work as an Obligation of Result

Summary/Abstract: A contract for specific work regulated in art. 627–646 of the Civil Code belongs to the result agreements. The division into obligations of result and due diligence is sometimes questioned in the literature in the field of civil law. In the opinion of the author of the article, however, it is legitimate. Each contract for specific work is a result agreement, however, not every result agreement must be a contract for specific work. A specific work cannot be referred to as any result of work. Issues of the legal character of the contract for specific work, together with the concept of work, is generally discussed in this article, including selected decisions of the Supreme Court and Appellate Courts. Indisputably, proper comprehension of the concept of specific work should facilitate the qualification of a specific civil law relationship as a contract for specifi c work, or another contract, e.g. a service contract. Assessment of the nature of contracts concluded by civil law entities may sometimes pose difficulties which is illustrated by judicial decisions quoted in the article.

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