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for many civil law countries, which recognize a clear duty to negotiate with care, and not to lead a negotiating partner to act to his detriment before a firm contract is concluded. In
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doctrine. Originally, according to the prevailing interpretation of the German Civil Code, there was no such legal doctrine. The courts saw a gap in the law and used the
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to draw up a "Contract Code" (being a codification and fusion of
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to function as a substitute for the consideration doctrine. This movement was stimulated by the acceptance of the concept in section 90 of the first
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expression meaning "fault in conclusion of a contract". It is an important concept in
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