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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY


Legislative history of CISG article 14:

Match-up with 1978 Draft to assess relevance of Secretariat Commentary




       1978 Draft aricle 12                         CISG article 14 


(1)A proposal for concluding a con-         (1)A proposal for concluding a con- 
   tract addressed to one or more              tract addressed to one or more   
   specific persons constitutes an of-         specific persons constitutes an of-   
   fer if it is sufficiently definite and      fer if it is sufficiently definite and 
   indicates the intention of the of-          indicates the intention of the of-  
   feror to be bound in case of accept-        feror to be bound in case of accept- 
   ance. A proposal is sufficiently            ance. A proposal is sufficiently   
   definite if it indicates the goods          definite if it indicates the goods  
   and expressly or implicitly fixes or        and expressly or implicitly fixes or 
   makes provision for determining             makes provision for determining  
   the quantity and the price.                 the quantity and the price.     

(2)A proposal other than one ad-            (2)A proposal other than one ad-      
   dressed to one or more specific             dressed to one or more specific    
   persons is to be considered merely          persons is to be considered merely  
   as an invitation to make offers, un-        as an invitation to make offers, un- 
   less the contrary is clearly indi-          less the contrary is clearly indi-  
   cated by the person making the              cated by the person making the      
   proposal.                                   proposal.       





Editorial comments


CISG article 14 and 1978 Draft article 12 are identical.  The Secretariat
Commentary on 1978 Draft article 12 should therefore be relevant to the
interpretation of CISG article 14.

Pace Law School Institute of International Commercial Law - Last updated July 12, 1999
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