Liability for the acts of things : comparative study of French law and Kuwaiti law ; Responsabilité du fait des choses : étude comparative du droit français et du droit Koweïtien
My research aims to study how the Kuwaiti system compensates victims in situations where the French system uses general liability for acts of things, based on article 1242, first paragraph of the French Civil Code. This study takes its interest from the fact that this liability in France is much criticized and it is even envisaged in one of the great projects of reform of the law of obligations to modify it. In particular, French courts have been faced, although not fully resolved, with the growing problem of what to do with obsolete laws manifestly unsuitable for current conditions. Until at least 1985, French courts have ruled on almost all tort cases under laws drafted in pre-industrial and pre-automobile times. Their performance is a tribute to what the judges can do. The French legislator never intervened in 1804, the date of the codification of the French Civil Code, to modify the common law regime of tort liability. This is not to say that the common law of French extracontractual liability has remained unchanged. In France, this right is essentially jurisprudential. The French legislator, by the March 2017 reform bill, however, takes up this task. Many are the change to come and are instead of arguing in French law, situate here that the big ones: disappearance of the liability attributable to buildings, disappearance of liability for fire, absorption of liability for animals by liability for acts of things. It is therefore interesting to see, at a time when we are considering reforms to the law of obligations in France, what other countries are doing in this area, such as Kuwait, in order to be able to put forward the most interesting system. Kuwaiti civil liability law, of recent codification, therefore presents some fairly innovative thinking. ; Notre recherche étudie comment le système koweïtien indemnise les victimes dans les situations où le système français utilise la responsabilité générale du fait des choses, en se fondant sur l'article 1242, alinéa premier du Code civil français. Cette étude ...