LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

CISG ANTECEDENTS

• Match-up of CISG Article 22 with ULF provisions
• Comments on the match-up

    CISG Article 22                           ULF Article 10 
                                            
An acceptance may be withdrawn           An acceptance cannot be 
if the withdrawal reaches the            revoked except by a revocation
offeror before or at the time as         which is communicated to the 
the acceptance would have                the offeror before or at the 
become effective.                        same time as the acceptance. 

Comments on the match-up

CISG Article 22 "goes back to Article 10 ULF. . . . In contrast to . . . ULF, Article 22 refers merely to 'withdrawal' (and not to 'revocation') and so makes a clear distinction (as does [CISG] Article 15(2))." Schlechtriem in Commentary on the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods, Peter Schlechtriem ed. (Oxford 1998) 157.

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Pace Law School Institute of International Commercial Law - Last updated June 18, 1998

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