Jurisprudence and private law

Abstract Breach of contract is economically efficient only when the cost of contract enforcement for the obligor surpasses the resulting benefits, thus the obligor accepts payment to the obligee for the damages, placing him at a position of contract in force to avoid further damages to himself. The preconditions for efficiency in breach of contract requires the sum of damages be less than the real imposed damages and in financial assessment of the damage the personal value of the contract is not calculated in favor of the creditor, sufficing to a criterion only. Some legal criticisms are: neglecting ethical values, reducing planning capacity, elimination of profit for the seller of precious goods, and contradiction with the principle of freedom.
The legal and economic definition of efficient breach of contract, reviewing pertinent criticisms and a comparative study with the Western legal system are among the major achievements of this paper.
Apparently, despite all problems Iran’s legal system has to challenge with to have the theory accepted, thanks to its many advantages efforts should be maintained to pave the ground for translation of this theory into action in Iran. Some solutions to that end, are the following: reinforcing legal system in full compensation for the damages, admitting Pareto efficiency rule, giving priority to social benefits over individual gains, including some economically efficient concepts as prerequisites for realization of economic justice, admitting the theory in view of ethical values, proving its lack of contradiction with specific performance of the contract.

Abstract In this paper, we have first tried to define coma and then compare it with general anesthesia and brain death by resorting to the opinions of the jurists and latest medical findings. Unlike common belief, coma is not a disease; rather, it is a prolonged state of unconsciousness that results from damage to the person’s brain. In this paper, we will investigate the nature of coma and compare and contrast it with similar states of unconsciousness in the science of jurisprudence and law. The most important outcome of this study and the aforesaid comparison and contrast will emerge in the answer to the following question: What state of life is “the person in coma” in? There is an in-depth relation between humans’ life and death on one side and jurisprudence and law on the other side, in the sense that some rules are only applicable to death and the dead person while on the contrary, there are rules that are applicable to the person as long as he is alive and become inapplicable with the passing away of the person. Therefore, a precise examination of the concepts of life and death will be inevitable toward realizing the purpose of this paper.

Abstract According to Iranian legal system, despite the existence of fixed debt in an obligation, pledgee and its waiver, the mortgage contract shall be enforceable and the right of pledgee shall be established on the mortgaged object. This is done without any difference between the two stages of creation and establishment of the right of pledge. Even in the case of immovable mortgage it is obligatory to register the document. On the other hand, in Iranian legal system the principle of transferability of the mortgage – however briefly – has been officially recognized so that conclusion of a mortgage contract and the establishment of the right of pledgee is no obstacle to future transfer of mortgage or pertinent rights by the mortgagor in case it does not violate the rights of the pledgee. The rule of this principle, without special stipulations on establishment of the rights mentioned in the contract such as obligation to register the mortgage, will sometimes raise consequences such as dispute in discerning priority, reference to the superficial contracts containing the date of priority and consequently violating the rights of pledgee as well as legal dispute in courts and probably penal procedures. Whereas in many legal systems across the world, the US legal system for instance, there is a distinction between the two stages of concluding the mortgage contract or a pledge and stipulations for the establishment of the rights of mortgage for either side. In these legal systems, a distinction has been made between movable and immovable mortgage and establishment of the right of pledgee on each case requires finishing certain formalities otherwise, the right of the pledgee will be incomplete and the priority will be with the other party finishing the procedure. The question raised in this paper is this: Is it possible to make a distinction between the two stages in Iranian legal system with respect to the existing jurisprudential laws and the enforceable legal texts?