Annales de l’université d’Alger
Volume 33, Numéro 4, Pages 682-699
2019-12-17

The Ambiguous Meaning Of ‘product’ In Product Liability Regime: The Case Of The Algerian Law And Some Comparative Law

Authors : Bentria Maamar . Hitala Maamar .

Abstract

The Civil liability system of producers and manufacturers is a brand new topic in Civil Law legal systems, considering its modernity and novelty in The French civil code which introduced this provision in 1998, as well as in the Algerian civil code which recently entered in 2005. And even in the Anglo-American legal system, in despite of the early emergence of the special system of producer and manufacturers in the early 1960s, the issue of defining the notion of "product" still disturbs the law-makers here. Indeed, this challenging question has moved to Algerian legislation, both in consumer protection law and civil code. This raises questions about the extent to which comparative legislation and Algerian legislation had contributed to the drawn up the outline of the notion of product.

Keywords

Product ; Service ; Goods (Wares) ; Intellectual Product ; Information as Product