Chapter 1

The two ways of transmitting ownership: abandonment of what is owned and its occupancy by someone else, and contract

Article 1

The first way of transmitting ownership: the abandonment of what is owned and its occupancy by someone else

Article 2

The second way of transmitting ownership: contracts

§1

The limits within which contracts are part of rational Right

§2

The definition of contracts in general

§3

The distinction between promises and contracts

§4

The morally and jurally obligatory force of accepted promises and other contracts

§5

Certain contracts transmit ownership of a thing only in the act of its material consignment; prior to this they are simple promises

§6

When promissory contracts must be effected

§7

The nature of consent in contracts

A.

The first condition: the thing must be capable of being the matter of a contract

B.

The second condition: those who give or receive consent must be jurally able to do so

C.

The third condition: the consent must not be produced by an injustice of one contracting party to the other

D.

The fourth condition: the consent must be expressed in such a way that it can be taken as true and certain

§8

Rules for the interpretation of contracts

§9

How obligations arising from contracts cease

§10

Equity