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Descriptors

• Introduction
• Tentative descriptors

Introduction

We intend to present a multi-lingual thesaurus of the international trade key words useful for searching CISG materials. This is work in process.

At this time, all that can be presented is a tentative list of descriptors being devised for this database.

Tentative descriptors

Acceptance
-with modifications
Agreement to apply Convention
Anticipatory breach of contract
Applicability
Arbitration
Autonomy of parties: see Freedom of contract
Avoidance of the contract
Battle of the forms
Burden of proof
Business, place of
Cancellation: see Avoidance of contract
Capacity to contract
Choice of law
Commercial letters of confirmation
Communications
Consequential damages
Consideration
Conclusion of contract
Conformity of goods to contract
Consumer sales
Course of dealing: see Practices of parties
Culpa in contrahendo: see Pre-contract negotiations
Cure of nonconformity
Damages
Delivery of goods
- place for
Dispatch principle
Documents
- handing over
Error: see Mistake
Examination of goods
Exchange rates
Exclusions from the Convention
Exculpatory clauses, validity of
Excuse for failure to notify
Fault, liability for
Final provisions
Force majeure: see Impediments excusing party from damages
Foreseeability
Formal requirements, relaxation of
Formation of contract
Frame agreements
Freedom of contract
Frustration: see Impediments excusing party from damages
Fundamental breach of contract
Gaps in the Convention
General conditions of contract
General principles of Convention
Good Faith
Goods to be manufactured
Guaranties
Hardship
Impossibility of performances: see Impediments excusing party from damages
Incoterms
Inflation damages
Installment contracts
Intellectual property
Interference with performance
Interpretation
- of the contract
- of the Convention
Jurisdiction and venue
Lack of conformity
- general
- of part of goods
Lex mercatoria
Mistake
Mitigation of damages
Mixed contracts: goods/services
Modification or termination of contract
Noncompliance with contract obligations
Nonconformity: see Lack of conformity
Notice
- of avoidance
- fixing additional final period of performance
- of lack of conformity
- of third-party claims
Novation
Obligations
- of buyer
- of seller
Offer
Open-price contracts: see Unstated price
Passage of risk: see Risk, passage of
Payment
- place for
- time for
Penalty clauses
Personal injury or death, liability for
Place of business: see Business, place of
Practices of parties
Pre-contract negotiations
Prescription period: see Statute of Limitations
Price, obligation to pay
Protection of weaker party
Quality of the goods: see Conformity of the goods
Reasonableness
Receipt principle
Reduction of price
Relationship to other conventions
Remedies
Restitution of benefits received
Revocability of offer
Risk, passage of
Scope of CISG
Services: see Mixed contracts
Shipping arrangements
Software
Specifications of goods
Specific performance
Sphere of application: see Applicability; Scope of CISG
Standard conditions: see General conditions of contract
Statute of Frauds
Statute of Limitations
Suspension of performance
Third-party claims
Torts
Unjust enrichment
Usages
Validity
Warehousing of goods
Warranties: see Conformity of goods to contract

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