Summary of the Saudi Civil Transactions System — Book One: Sources of Obligation by Dr. Ahmed Al-Saeed Al-Zuqard

Summary of the Saudi Civil Transactions System issued by Royal Decree Number Book One A summary of the Civil Transactions System, a jurisprudential explanation that analyzes and authenticates its texts, compares them, and does not come brief with a practical nature, like commentaries or explanatory memoranda that usually accompany civil codes. Nor is it lengthy, delving deeply into the texts, but it is a summary that meets the needs of knowledge and work, and opens the way for other writings. We intended for the summary to be in six parts, including sources of obligation, its provisions, major named contracts, minor named contracts, primary real rights, and personal and real guarantees. For scientific and methodological reasons, we also aimed for the author to be concise, modern, and comparative: it is concise because I am convinced that obtaining information is easy or simple, but the more difficult part is the methodology through which this information is presented. It is modern because it addresses the system issued in 1444 AH, where the author worked as an expert for three years in the committee that drafted its texts, reviewed its explanations, and it is a comparative study with French and Egyptian law for the most important reasons that in these two laws there is a rich legacy of jurisprudential theories, judicial rulings, and accumulated experiences. We saw that it should be transferred to jurisprudence and the judiciary in the Kingdom, especially since the system is new and does not contain national jurisprudence or judiciary, and it largely agrees with these two laws, whether in the careful consideration of the obligation theory and its provisions, and its application to contracts, or in terms of primary real rights, or in terms of its inclusion of the newly introduced rules in the French law amended in 2016.