The Essence and General Conditions of an Off-premises Contract
Keywords:
an off-premises contract, consumer law, consumers’ rights, protection of consumers’ rights, consumer, trader (entrepreneur).Abstract
The respective paper is dedicated to defining the essence and general conditions of an off-premises contract. The key objective of the paper is to discuss the essence of a contract concluded off-premises and make a contribution to developing doctrine of scholars in Georgia. Also, identify problematics of exercising consumer rights through study of Georgia’s consumer market; hence, make an analyses of Georgian and European legislative frameworks on the respective matter in order to develop recommendations for approximation of these frameworks. The paper will also aim at making analyses of similar institutions in frames of the European Union Law and will develop the model, which will be adjusted to Georgia’s reality to a greater extent and will be resulted from a synthesis.
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