GENERAL CONDITIONS UNDER THE LAWS OF THE DUTCH CARIBBEAN
General conditions may be nullified
Since 1 January 2001 the Civil Code (CC) of Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles contains a section on general terms and conditions. By including this section in the CC the legislator tried to strengthen judicial supervision of the terms of general conditions in order to protect contracting parties against the use of general conditions, since they, generally, have no knowledge of, or influence on, the contents of these conditions.
The CC gives a broad definition of general conditions. When a certain clause or condition is used in a number of contracts then the clause or …
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