Juridical Nature of closure of treaty (Article 48 of treaty general conditions)

Closure of juridical relationships in the treaties or the revocation of treaties in treaties’ general rules and in Iran Law is because of three factors which are revoke, termination, mutual rescission. but in the general terms of construction contracts (issue number 4311) which are imparted according to circular number 102.108854.842 in 03/03/1378 to administrative systems have quoted a special kind of closure of juridical relationships under the title of treaty closure which is seemingly is not consistent with quoted factors. The purpose of writing this article is to comparatively study the article 48 of treaty’s general conditions with each one of these patterns, and also to review the opinions in this matter. In this research after explaining the treaty revocation factors in Iran law, we study the nature of Article 48 of treaty general conditions and the opinions are reviewed. Finally, advantages of necessity of determining the duration in contracting treaty as a continuous treaty and also anticipating the duration for revocation option, closure of treaty written in article 48 of general terms of construction contracts considering it being limited to the treaty duration, it is consistent with revocation option of article 399 of civil code which is simply anticipated for the employee.