The termination of the contract is a remedy available to each contracting party under the provided conditions in case when the other party does not fulfills contractual obligations. This right is established by law, but also can be provided by the contract itself. The aim which creditor wants to achieve using it is to get free from his contractual obligation and to get things back, to the maximum extent possible, into the position in which they would have been if the performance of the contract has not even started. Having in mind that the termination of the contract is a remedy that affects the contract on the most difficult way, all legal systems provide conditions and restrictions of its use, in order to prevent its misuse. A request that the breach of contract has to be sufficiently serious is the most important restriction in that context, as only severe breach can be a basis for rescind of the contract. Beside that, a right to use that remedy is, as a rule, time-limited, and in some legal systems it depends upon by the possibility to return the debtor what he has already fulfilled in the name of performance of the contract. Predicting specific procedures for realization of the right to terminate the contract, control of fulfillment of mentioned conditions is carried out. So, termination can be exercised only in court proceedings in some legal systems, while in others it is enough if the creditor makes an appropriate statement. Sometimes, termination of the contract comes ex lege.Povreda ugovora je pravno sredstvo koje je dostupno svakoj ugovornoj strani pod predviđenim uslovima, kada druga strana ne ispuni svoju ugovornu obavzeu. Ovo pravo se ustanovljama zakonom, ali se, takođe, može predvideti i ugovorom. Cilj koji poverilac želi da postigne upotrebom ovog pravnog sredstva, jeste da se oslobodi od obaveze da ispuni ugovor i, u meri u kojoj je to moguće, vrati stvari u položaj u kome bi one bile da izvršenje nije ni započeto. Imajući u vidu da je u pitanju pravno sredstvo koje, na najteži način pogađa ugovor, svi pravni sitstemi predviđaju uslove i ograničenja pod kojima se to pravo stiče i koristi, kako bi se sprečile njegove zloupotrebe. Najvažnije ograničenje koje se u tom cilju predviđa odnosi se na zahtev da povreda ugovora mora biti ozbiljna, teška da bi mogla biti osnov za raskid ugovora. Pored toga, pravo da se upotrebi ovo pravno sredstvo se, po pravilu, vremenski ograničava, a u nekim pravima je ono uslovljeno i mogućnošću da se vrati dužniku sve što je, eventualno, na ime izvršenja ugovora već ispunio. Kontrola ispunjenosti predviđenih uslova vrši se, po pravilu, predviđanjem posebnih procedura realizacije prava da se ugovor raskine, pa se u nekim pravima to može ostvariti samo u sudskom postupku, dok je u drugima dovoljno da poverilac učini odgovarajuću izjavu, a nekada do raskida ugovora dolazi i po samom pravu
