CISG CASE PRESENTATION

Germany 8 February 1993 District Court Verden (Shoes case)
[Cite as: http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/cases/930208g1.html]

Case Table of Contents

DATE OF DECISION: 19930208 (8 February 1993)

JURISDICTION: Germany

TRIBUNAL: LG Verden [LG = Landgericht = District Court]

JUDGE(S): Unavailable

CASE NUMBER/DOCKET NUMBER: 9 O 85/92

CASE NAME: German case citations do not identify parties to proceedings

CASE HISTORY: Unavailable

SELLER'S COUNTRY: Italy (plaintiff)

BUYER'S COUNTRY: Germany (defendant)

GOODS INVOLVED: Shoes

APPLICATION OF CISG: Yes [Article 1(1)(b)]

Classification of issues using UNCITRAL classification code numbers:

58A [Time for payment: buyer to pay when goods placed at buyer's disposition (and in accordance with the contract)];

78B [Interest on delay in receiving price or any other sum in arrears: rate of interest]

Descriptors: Price ; Interest

(a) UNCITRAL abstract: Unavailable

(b) Other abstracts

English: Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=87&step=Abstract>

Italian: Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (1996) 623-624

CITATIONS TO TEXT OF DECISION

Original language (German): cisg-online.ch <http://www.cisg-online.ch/cisg/urteile/77.htm>; Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=87&step=FullText>

Translation: Unavailable

CITATIONS TO COMMENTS ON DECISION

English: Ferrari, International Legal Forum (4/1998) 138-255 [253 n.1079 (interest issues)]; Thiele, 2 Vindobono Journal (1998) 3-35, citing this case [n.10, n.13] and 42 other interest rulings; Liu Chengwei, Recovery of interest (November 2003) n.110; Article 78 and rate of interest: Mazzotta, Endless disagreement among commentators, much less among courts (2004) [citing this case and 275 other court and arbitral rulings]

French: Witz, Les premières applications jurisprudentielles du droit uniforme de la vente internationale (L.G.D.J., Paris 1995) 106 n.115

Spanish: Piltz, La Ley (Buenos Aires: 5 September 1994) n.59

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