الطبيعة القانونية للعقود الذكية وفقا لنظرية العقد في القانون المدني الاردني

Abstract EN

Contract theory is considered one of the legal theories most affected by the current technological development.

It is said that technology has become a real challenge to the current legislations, trying to identify whether current contractual legal provisions are able to respond to technical development.

This paper deals with the notion of smart contracts in the light of the provisions of the Jordanian Civil Code and the Jordanian Electronic Transactions Law, to determine whether the current legal texts can accommodate this type of contracts based on the automated and automated implementation of the contract terms using related software and algorithms.

This paper concluded that although the Jordanian legislator has legalized the use of information messages to conclude contracts in whole or in part, talking about smart contracts calls for legislative intervention to fill the gap regarding blockchain technologies and smart contracts associated with them, especially with the growing use of this type.

of recent contracts specially with the governmental oversight of such contracts