Culpa in contracting in (Slovak) privat law

Abstract

A legal arrangement culpa in contrahendo refers to liability for breach of obligations with potential participants in the (future) contract in the contracting process. It is a secondary contractual obligation caused by dishonest conduct, or, more precisely, by actions contrary to the principle of good faith at the time of negotiations regarding the (future) contract. The aim of the paper is to draw attention to this legal arrangement on the level of private law, which has undergone and still is undergoing development also from the point of view of Slovak legal theory and practice.