Novation in Imamiyah Jurisprudence (civil section)

Novation is one of the important topics of the obligations law, that is in its special and traditional meaning a legal act, and has been adopted from Roman law and it has been used in civil codes of the most countries, among them Iran. With due attention to special role of the Imamiyah jurisprudence rules in codification of the Iran civil code, some questions are propounded in connection to novation in Imamiyah jurisprudence, that pursue the remarkable theoretical vacuums; the vacuums and questions which have not been discussed certainly and in expanded way hitherto. The institution of the novation has not been ordained in Imamiyah jurisprudence, because the Islamic law and Imamiyah jurisprudence advanced legal rules have provided for the need to novation in desirable ways. But a sort of substitution of the obligation subject and a type of the changing of legal relations can be seen in Imamiyah jurisprudence that explanation about their nature and making their segregation and subscription points clear toward novation, not only can demonstrate the school of Imamiyah jurisprudence freedom of want, but also can answer to existent questions in this base