The Status of the Benefits Resulting from Considerations after the Revocation of the Transaction in the Iranian Law

In spite of expression of the rules of each legal option and the subsequent expression of the general rules of legal options, the Civil Code has suspended the status of the benefits resulted between the time of conclusion and revocation of the transaction. This suspension has brought about different views among lawyers. To obtain the rule for the status of benefits, we have to refer to other articles of the Civil Code in which there are two seemingly conflicting regulations. Article 287 concerning the cancellation of bargain distinguishes the types of benefits and grants the ownership of only separate benefits to a person who is the owner of consideration under the contract. However, Article 459 grants the ownership of benefits (including separate and inseparate) to the buyer.
To clarify the case further and to determine the status of the resulted benefits, we consider the general theory of the Civil Code and look for the solution of the problem in the Civil Code through the inductive method. The ideas of Shiite jurists on the status of benefits of consideration are also helpful in this exploration.