Volume VII: Contracts in General | Chapter 13 (1992): Rights of Third Parties: Third Party Beneficiaries and Assignment

Completed in September 1990

Hein Kötz

1. In the preceding chapters attention has been focused on two-party relationships. This chapter on third party beneficiaries and assignment considers the triangular relationships that arise when a third party seeks to establish that rights created under a contract have in some way been conferred on him.

Normally, the intention of persons who enter into a bilateral contract, such as a contract of sale, is that…