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Ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome to the lecture Introduction to Civil Law and the General Part of the German Civil Code. Yes, yesterday's lesson once again dealt in depth with some of the basic concepts of the German Civil Code with the question of what private law, private law cases, and civil law cases are primarily about

. As a rule, in a private law case, when resolving a case under private law , one must examine whether the parties involved have claims against each other . This also involves claims to demand that another person waive or refrain from performing a right. Yes, what can a claim arise from a contractual

obligation, a statutory or a contractual obligation? For us, the contractual obligations are of more interest here and how a contract is formed through agreement. The parties must agree. They must make mutual declarations of allegiance. In other words, an agreement must be reached. How can this agreement be reached? In particular, through offers and

acceptances. This form of concluding a contractual agreement has been regulated in more detail by the legislator in Section 145 below. Specially regulated because this is a particularly common form of concluding a contractual agreement. Yes, offer and acceptance. Who remembers? What is meant by an offer? First of all, that is a definition that you should master

if possible, at the latest for the exam . Yes.

>> Yes, that would be the point of sufficient specificity of content. Yes. A declaration of intent and declaration of intent that requires receipt. What is a declaration of intent? In general terms? Yes. Yes. Requires a legally binding intention. Yes, please. Yes, so a private expression of intent that is aimed at invoking a legal consequence