Sudden break: The French Supreme Civil Court pronounces inadmissibility of legal claims based on the principle of non-cumulation between the different types of liability (Artcurial)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. Background. The practical implications of the lack of autonomy of the extra-contractual concept of the "established relationship" and of the contracts on which it is based are as numerous as they are daunting. Because contracts and the relationship are necessarily intermingled, many litigants invoke them indiscriminately, forgetting that an action based on the relationship requires referral to a specialized court. The consequence of a misdirection of the dispute is then severely sanctioned by the inadmissibility of this claim (see lastly Com., 6 Nov. 2019, no. 17-26849, Lettre distr. 12/2019, the Court approving the statement of office in article L. 442-6,