# Contract Affirmation Through Continued Performance **Geschäftsnummer:** ATAS/1013/2005 **Citation:** CJ GE ATAS/1013/2005 **Gericht / Behörde:** Cour de Justice (Cour civile) (Chambre des assurances sociales) **Entscheiddatum:** 2005-11-22 **Ausgang:** Abgewiesen (Dismissed) **Canonical Legislator URL:** https://legislator.ch/de/sources/case/ch/ge/ATAS-1013-2005/contract-affirmation-through-continued-performance **Official Source URL:** https://justice.ge.ch/apps/decis/fr/atas/show/1958285?doc= **Entscheidsuche Mirror:** https://entscheidsuche.ch/docs/GE_Gerichte/GE_CJ_014_A-2620-2004_2005-11-22.pdf ## Legislator-Zusammenfassung A party appealed a decision regarding a contractual dispute involving a note where the central issue was whether the obligor's continued performance after the alleged breach was only under protest or constituted an election to affirm the contract. The court reasoned that continued performance by a party following a breach, especially when coupled with actions inconsistent with repudiation, generally signals an affirmation of the contract, thereby waiving the right to treat the contract as terminated for that prior breach, unless the performance was clearly undertaken solely under protest to mitigate damages or preserve rights, a fact not sufficiently established by the record. ## Legislator-Regeste Art. 66 al. 1 LTF, Art. 68 al. 2 LTF; Contract Affirmation Through Continued Performance: The court reasoned that continued performance by a party following a breach, especially when coupled with actions inconsistent with repudiation, generally signals an affirmation of the contract, thereby waiving the right to treat the contract as terminated for that prior breach, unless the performance was clearly undertaken solely under protest to mitigate damages or preserve rights, a fact not sufficiently established by the record. ## Schlagwörter vertraglicher Schadenersatz · Tonträgervertrag · Leistungsklage · Aufrechterhaltung des Vertrages · Verstossung · Verbaloblation ## Zitierte Gesetzesbestimmungen [Art. 66 al. 1 LTF](https://legislator.ch/de/sources/law/ch/federal/173.110/66) · [Art. 68 al. 2 LTF](https://legislator.ch/de/sources/law/ch/federal/173.110/68) ## Zentrale Rechtsfragen, extrahiert von Legislator ### 1. 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