Resumen de El beneficiario en el contrato a favor de tercero

Freddy Andrés Hung Gil

• español

  La noción de contrato a favor de tercero, clásica en la doctrina civilista moderna, presenta la extraña característica de resultar aparentemente clara por su enunciado y, a la vez, tendente a tornarse huidiza y esfumarse. La mayoría de la doctrina que estudia la figura analizada, reconoce como contrato a favor de tercero aquel concertado por las partes del mismo, en interés directo o indirecto de un tercero que, pese a no intervenir en modo alguno en la formación de este, le es atribuido un derecho subjetivo tendente a exigir su cumplimiento. La existencia de las partes contractuales y de un tercero beneficiario condiciona un conjunto de relaciones internas que remarcan la complejidad del instituto.

• English

  The notion of contract in favour of a third party (third-party beneficiary contract), a classic in modern civil doctrine, has the strange characteristic of being apparently clear in its formulation and, at the same time, tending to become elusive and vanish. The majority of the doctrine that studies the figure analysed recognises as a contract in favour of a third party a contract entered into by the parties to it, in the direct or indirect interest of a third party who, despite not intervening in any way in the formation of the contract, is attributed a subjective right tending to demand its performance. The existence of the contractual parties and of a third party beneficiary conditions a set of internal relationships that underline the complexity of the institute