LTStraipsnyje analizuojama, kokia koncepcinė idėja šiuolaikinėje teisėje pagrindžia duotų pažadų teisinio privalomumo idėją. Kaip viena ii aiškiausiai išreikštų pažadų teisinio įpareigojimo prielaidų, teismų praktikos suformuluotų bendrojoje teisės sistemoje, straipsnyje analizuojama vadinamoji consideration doktrina, jos atsiradimo priežastys ir reikšmė sutarčių teisėje. Kiekvienos sistemos fundamentalioms nuostatoms budingas racionalumas turėtų suponuoti „consideration“ doktrinai ekvivalenčių siekiamo rezultato požiūriu institutų egzistavimą kitoms, ne bendrosios teisės sistemoms priklausančių valstybių teisėje. Straipsnyje analizuojama, kokios teorinės galėtų būti išvedamos „consideration“ doktrinos ir Lietuvos sutarčių teisėje tiesiogiai ir netiesiogiai numatytų duodamų pažadų teisinio privalomumo prielaidų lygiagretės. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Consideration doktrina; Sutarčių teisė; Consideration; Contract law.
ENThe presence of consideration, as a mandatory precondition for legal enforceability of a promise made, was first demanded to be proven in 1539 in England. A promise was not legally binding without certain causa already in Roman law. This causa had primarily been understood as a good reason which resulted in making the promise and which stipulated a sufficient basis for ensuring fulfilment of the promise. Although 4 becomes logically to presume or even apparent that any law system requires there should be "a good reason" in order to legally secure possibility to enforce promises made, the question arises whether an understanding of good reason is the same, similar or divergent from the perspective of different law systems. Under common law, consideration is a principal conilition for a promise to be enforceable and may be viewed in the framework of benefit and detriment in a bargain. If one party received a benefit to the detriment of the other party in a bargain, then there was consideration. Therefore, consideration is first of all benefit which must be bargained for between the parties to a contract. There is no system of rules in Lithuanian contract law which would closely resemble the doctrine of consideration. However, a functional equivalent to the doctrine to lesser or higher degree may be found in distinguishing in Lithuanian law between so called "consensual" and "real", "gratuitous" and "compensatory" contracts, which is further discussed in the article. By concluding the author remarks that although there may be found certain theoretical parallels between the doctrine of consideration and provisions of Lithuanian contract law, they do not allow alleging an existence of identify between the latter. [From the publication]