A Critical Review of the Book Iranian Civil Law: Unilateral Act, General Theory – Specific Act Based on the Content Analysis Method

Yazdani, Mohammad; Salehi Mazandarani, Mohammad

doi:10.30465/crtls.2024.46311.2761

A Critical Review of the Book Iranian Civil Law: Unilateral Act, General Theory – Specific Act Based on the Content Analysis Method

Document Type : Research

Authors

Mohammad Yazdani ¹

Mohammad Salehi Mazandarani ²

¹ Ph.D. Candidate of Private Law, Qom University, Qom, Iran

² Professor of Private Law, Qom University, Qom, Iran

https://doi.org/10.30465/crtls.2024.46311.2761

Abstract

In contrast to contracts and agreements, unilateral acts have not received much attention from scholars. Dr. Katouzian is among those who have examined and explored the issues related to events in his book "Unilateral Act", which is divided into two sections: general theory and specific act. The unique nature of this work emphasizes the importance of precision. This study focuses on the general theory section of Dr. Katouzian's book and attempts to describe and statistically analyze it using the content analysis method and SPSS software. The book references Imami jurisprudence and French law the most. In this section, 151 issues were examined, with 35.7% of them aligning with the provisions of contracts and agreements. Additionally, over 41% of the problems were found to be based on propositions, with the "definition of Unilateral Act" and "possibility of comparing unilateral act with a contract" accounting for over 20% of the issues. Instead of relying on the Quran and the Sunnah, analogies and induction were used as sources, and the author's primary research and thinking method for these issues was "intellectual necessity."

Keywords

Civil Law

Content Analysis Method

General Theory

Iranian Law

Logical Analogy

Unilateral Act

Subjects

Jurisprudence and Law

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