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Deckungsverhältnis

Substantiv

neolog

obligor-obligee relationship under third-party beneficiary contract

Comparative law notes

Germany

Since the common law treats the relationship between, for example, a drawer and drawee under a bill or exchange merely as a relationship between the obligor and obligee, no additional special term is used in that legal system; hence this long-winded neologism.