In this study, the author makes a relatively exhaustive analysis of the provisions of Articles 1221 to 1224 of the new Romanian Civil Code (Law no. 287/2009, republished on July 15, 2011 and effective since October 1st 2011) stressing the differences – substantive – between regulations on damage (as vice of consent) in the present Civil Code and in the previous Civil Code (of 1864).