KAUZA UGOVORNE OBAVEZE

The paper discusses the impact of the reasons for the commitment on the validity of the contract. Due to the fact that most institutes of modern law find their origin in Roman law, the paper begins by presenting the role of the cause of obligation in Roman law. The author then analyzes the causal and anti-causal views of legal theory, all in order to emphasize the fact that the cause of the contractual obligation is theoretically a very controversial institute of the law of obligations. The last part of the paper is dedicated to the cause of contractual obligation in our contract law. Starting from the fact that the Law on Obligations accepts with its provisions the subjective and objective conception of the cause of the contractual obligation, the author points out that the objective conception of the cause of the contractual obligation, accepted through art. 51. ZOO, is a redundant institute that has no greater practical significance and which is successfully replaced by other institutes of law of obligations.