40 Contract law as part of private law

There are good reasons for including more than rules on general contract law in the DCFR. These general rules need to be tested to see whether or in what respect they have to be adjusted, amended and revised within the framework of the most important of the specific contracts. Nor can the DCFR contain only rules dealing with consumer contracts. The two Groups concur in the view that consumer law is not a self-standing area of private law. It consists of some deviations from the general principles of private law, but it is built on them and cannot be developed without them. And ‘private law’ for this purpose is not confined to the law on contract and contractual obligations. The correct dividing line between contract law (in this wide sense) and some other areas of law is in any event difficult to determine precisely.23. The DCFR therefore approaches the whole of the law of obligations as an organic entity or unit. Some areas of property law with regard to movable property are dealt with for more or less identical reasons and because some aspects of property law are of great relevance to the good functioning of the internal market.