Time is an essential element of contracts، as there is an independent in many parts of each contract، but the time dimension has a significant impact on the provisions of all contracts and is not limited to a particular range of contracts، and French and Arab jurists alike have called for this dimension to be given special attention، and as a result the French legislator has introduced the term duration of the contract، to try to limit the temporal elements، to clarify their provisions and to distinguish between them in decree131/2 016، but for our Arab country it did not receive the appropriate answer. The problem of duration in contracts relates to the lack of clarity of the idea، and then to confuse the various time terms in the contracts، and to focus on the stage of implementation of the contract without its composition or expiry، so we decided to study the duration of the contract in accordance with the French legislation، and analyze its legal articles to reach the correct legal provisions، all in comparison with the various articles in our Iraqi and Egyptian legislation، thus we hope that our study will be the nucleus of other legal studies in this area.
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