1. If a person undertakes that a third party shall be bound by a certain matter, that third party is not bound thereby. 2. If the third party accepts such undertaking, their acceptance produces no effect except from the time it is made, unless it is apparent that they intended, expressly or implicitly, for the effect of this acceptance to relate back to the time of the undertaking. 3. If the third party refuses the undertaking, the undertaker is obliged to compensate the promisee if there is justification therefor, and the undertaker may be released from compensation by performing the obligation they undertook to perform, if that is possible.
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