Contracts - Change of Circumstances

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Civil Code:

Article

第 227-2 條

契約成立後，情事變更，非當時所得預料，而依其原有效果顯失公平者，當事人得聲請法院增、減其給付或變更其他原有之效果。

前項規定，於非因契約所發生之債，準用之。

Article 227- 2

If there is change of circumstances which is not predictable then after the constitution of the contract, and if the performance of the original obligation arising therefrom will become obviously unfair, the party may apply to the court for increasing or reducing his payment, or altering the original obligation.

The provision in the preceding paragraph shall apply mutatis mutandis to the obligation not arising from the contract.

Vocabulary

契約  [qìyuē]  /agreement/contract/

成立  [chénglì]  /establish/set up/

後  [hòu]  /after/

情事變更  [qíngshìbiàngèng]  /change of circumstances/

非  [fēi]  /non-/not-/un-/

當時  [dāngshí]  /then/at that time/while/

所  [suǒ]  /語氣詞,無義/

得  [dé]  /may/can/be able to/

預料  [yùliào]  /anticipate/

而  [ér]  /and/

依  [yī]  /according to/depend on/

其  [qí]  /his/her/its/theirs/that/such/it (refers to sth preceding it)/

原有效果  [yuányǒuxiàoguǒ]  /original effect/

顯  [xiǎn]  /prominent/conspicuous/

失  [shī]  /to lose/to miss/to fail/

公平  [gōngpíng]  /fair/impartial/

者  [zhě]  /-ist, -er (person)/person (who does sth)/

當事人  [dāngshìrén]  /persons involved or implicated/party (to an affair)/

聲請  [shēngqǐng]  /confront/ask/challenge/

法院  [fǎyuàn]  /court of law/court/

增  [zēng]  /to increase/to expand/to add/

減  [jiǎn]  /to lower/to decrease/to reduce/to subtract/to diminish/

給付  [jǐfù]  /give/pay/performance/

或  [huò]  /or/

變更  [biàngēng]  /change/alter/modify/

其他  [qítā]  /other/else/

有  [yǒu]  /to have/there is/there are/to exist/to be/

之  [zhī]  /(literary equivalent of 的)/

效果  [xiàoguǒ]  /result/effect/

前  [qián]  /before/in front/ago/former/previous/earlier/front/

項  [xiàng]  /paragraph/

規定  [guīdìng]  /provision/

於  [yú]  /in/at/

因  [yīn]  /because/

所  [suǒ]  /(adding emphasis)/

發生  [fāshēng]  /to happen/to occur/to take place/

債  [zhài]  /debt/

準用  [zhǔnyòng]  /shall apply, where appropriate, to …/apply mutatis mutandis/