Is it really that different in other countries? Not specific to tenant contracts, but aren`t oral contracts mandatory everywhere? An oral contract is so full of holes that it is unlikely that anyone will try to impose it. There are many details in the written tenancy agreement that the potential tenant would not have known and therefore would not have linked. It is up to the details of the „verbal agreement to begin the recruitment process“ to know whether an exchange agreement has been concluded or simply proposed. Z.B. „You and I agree that I will pay you a contract $X in exchange for Y due Z.“ So there was no legal contract, oral or not, so no worries for the operation. Even after the „alleged“ oral contract, the owner must submit a written contract as agreed. The owner never produced it, thus violating this contract if there had ever been one. Given the legal statement of the Oberlandesgericht Dusseldorf, which resembles the operation, this was not the case. Such a confidentiality provision does not exist in German arbitration law. Although arbitration procedures are not public, they are not protected for confidentiality, unless there is a specific party agreement on confidentiality. A very general confidentiality provision under Section 43 of the DIS rules covers the parties – arbitrators and persons in the DIS secretariat – and obliges them to respect the confidentiality of the arbitration procedure.

Although an oral employment contract entered into at the beginning of a job is legally binding, it can cause problems, especially if one is wrongly dismissed. Lawyers say that being safe always ensures that you have a written and signed contract. Contrary to the general assumption that only written contracts are legally binding, oral contracts can also be legally binding. According to WAZ, oral contracts, with a few exceptions in sales law, are adopted as legally binding agreements. If the agreements between the parties are pre-formed contractual terms for several contracts and one party imposes on the other when entering into a contract (general terms and conditions), BGB`s general terms of sale apply.