tehingu

Tehingu is the Estonian genitive form of tehing, a noun that denotes a transaction, deal, or legal act. In legal and business language, tehingu refers to the act or process by which rights and obligations arise, change hands, or cease to exist between two or more parties. The term is common in court documents, contracts, and commercial records, and appears in phrases such as tehingu poolte (parties to the transaction) and tehingu tingimused (terms of the transaction).

A tehingu is a legal act that creates, changes, or terminates rights and obligations between actors, typically through agreement or unilateral declaration. It is a central concept in Estonian private law and commercial law, used to describe how legal effects are produced by deliberate actions or statements. While many tehingud are formal contracts, some acts may have effect through unilateral intent or by operation of law.

Tehingu tüübid are diverse and cover activities such as sales, loans, transfers of ownership, and other arrangements that establish or modify legal relationships between parties. In practice, tehingud may govern the sale of goods, the lending of money, the transfer of property, or the granting of rights to use assets. Form requirements vary, and certain tehingud must meet specific conditions, such as written form for property transfers or formalities mandated by law.

See also: tehinguõigus, võlaõiguslik tehing, leping.