Public Policy and Good Moral as a Condition for Validity of a Contract

In concluding contracts, individuals seek to create, change or annul their civil legal relations; therefore, in the contemporary legal society contracts are the main moving force of civil circulation and economy. Seeking to secure the legality and the stability of civil legal relations arising from contracts, the legislator has consolidated the institute of void contracts in legal acts. One of the conditions of contract validity (nullity), i.e. public order and good moral, is analysed in the thesis. The thesis attempts to define the concepts of public order and good moral, disclose their conception, analyse the relation between moral and law, define the criteria determining the norms of moral and law, assess the legal significance of public order and good moral for the validity of the contract and the volume of rights and duties of the contracting parties as well as determine the application and the criteria of applying and interpreting the validity conditions of the contract. A logical-analitical method, which has been manifested in discussing, comparing and analyzing the positions laid by judicial practice, legal acts and the authors of legal doctrine has mostly been used in the thesis. The above-mentioned validity condition of the contract is extremely significant for the Lithuanian contract law as it is relatively new in the Lithuanian Law. It was introduced only on 1 July 2001 after The Civil Code of the Republic of Lithuania came into force. Therefore, it has been little analysed in the doctrine on Lithuanian Law and the judicial practice is rather modest in this sphere