
The author examines the issue of „the exceptional cases” enabling a court to terminate an annuity under Article 913 § 2 of the Civil Code. The purpose of this article is to familiarize readers with the issue of annuity and grounds for its termination. Termination of the annuity by the courts is determined on a case-by-case basis. For this reason,
Supreme Court decicions regarding the admissibility of termination of a life contract is a review of theses and justifications made in the jurisprudence. The author focuses on the analysis of premises admissible by case-law, which justify „the exceptional cases” and the termination of the contract. The above considerations mainly concern the interpretation of the caselaw of the Supreme Court. Conclusions reached by the author make possible to understand legal norms that had been subjected to a more detailed interpretation by the Supreme Court.