According to the rule "alteri stipulari nemo potent",the Roman law doesn't recognize the effect of the third-party beneficiary contract. In the period of the lus Comune,under the influence of the nature law school, the European doctrine recognizes the effect of third-party beneficiary contract with the pre-condition that the third party should accept the right attributed to him. This theory,because of its defect,has been substituted by the new theory which recognized directly that the contract can produce the effect also in front of the third party. For the institution of the third-party beneficiary contract in Chinese legal system, the interpretation of the article.64 of the Contract Law couldn't resolve the problem, and the opportunity way is a special legislation in the future Chinese Civil Code on the base of the complete introduction of the theory of the third-party beneficiary contract into civil law system. |