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Germany 13 June 1991 Appellate Court Frankfurt (Textiles case) [Cite as: http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/cases/910613g1.html]
Primary source(s) for case presentation: Michael R. Will; case commentaries
DATE OF DECISION: 19910613 (13 June 1991) JURISDICTION: Germany TRIBUNAL:	OLG Frankfurt [OLG = Oberlandesgericht =
Provincial Court of Appeal] JUDGE(S): Unavailable CASE NUMBER/DOCKET NUMBER: 5 U 261/90 CASE NAME: German case citations do not identify parties to
proceedings CASE HISTORY: 1st instance LG Frankfurt 10 October 1990 SELLER'S COUNTRY: France (plaintiff) BUYER'S COUNTRY: Germany (defendant) GOODS INVOLVED: Textiles Case abstracts
GERMANY: OLG Frankfurt 13 June 1991 Case law on UNCITRAL texts
(CLOUT) abstract no. 1 Reproduced with permission from
UNCITRAL A sales contract between a French seller and a German
buyer, concluded after the Convention's
entry into force in France, was held to be governed by the Convention, since
the parties had not
chosen another law. It did not constitute an implied consent that the
seller at first instance, in
response to the buyer's statement that German law was applicable, had merely
whether German or French law applied. Nor could the lack of an unequivocal
response be treated
as an admission since the applicable law is not a fact.
The buyer, who had alleged non-conformity of the goods without specifying in
which respect, had
to pay the purchase price with interest. As regards the rate of interest,
widely prevailing view that the law of the country of the seller (the
creditor) applied, but
mentioned the opposite view according to which the debtor's law should
apply. The court did not
take a final stand on that controversy since in the case at hand the
statutory rates of interest in
both laws were identical (5%).
Abstract from 14 Journal of Law & Commerce (1995) 229 Reproduced with permission from the Journal Law applicable to determine amount of interest under CISG, Article 78. Since the rate of interest was not stipulated under CISG, Article 78,
according to German international private law the rate of interest on the
claim for the purchase price is governed by French Law. Referring to the
predominant legal opinion, the legal rate applicable to money claims at the
seller's domicile determines the interest rate pursuant to CISG, Article
78. . . . A deviating opinion is given by [the commentator] Stoll,
according to whom the amount of interest has to be determined under the
domestic law of the debtor. He argues that the duty to pay interest aims at
preventing the debtor from deriving advantage by withholding sums due and
investing the money [rather than paying the amount owed]; on the other hand,
[others argue] that interest is given as compensation to the creditor, in
the amount proper under the domestic law of the seller's country. The
court, however, need not decide [which law determines the interest rate]
because it does not affect the outcome of the case. Go to Case Table of Contents
APPLICATION OF CISG: Yes [Article 1(1)(b)] APPLICABLE CISG PROVISIONS AND ISSUES Key CISG provisions at issue: Article 78 [Also cited:
Articles 35 ; 36 ; 53 ; 58 ; 95 ; 100 ] Classification of issues using UNCITRAL classification code
numbers: 78A ; 78B [Interest on delay in receiving price or any other sum
in arrears; Rate of interest]
Descriptors: Applicability ; Choice of law ; Interest Go to Case Table of Contents
Interest: Interest was held payable from the date buyer was
obligated to pay the price. Interest was required at the
statutory rate of the applicable domestic law. The court did not
resolve whether to apply the statutory rate of the country of the
creditor (the seller's country) or of the country of the debtor
(the buyer's country) as the statutory rate is the same in both
countries (5%). Go to Case Table of Contents
English: Uniform Law Review (1991-1) 372; Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=4&step=Abstract>
French: Uniform Law Review (1991-1) 372
German: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Internationales und Europäisches Recht (SZIER)/Revue suisse de droit international et de droit européen 1993, 663
Italian: Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (1992) 633 No. 1 Polish: Hermanowski/Jastrzebski, Konwencja Narodow Zjednoczonych o umowach
miedzynarodowej sprzedazy towarow (Konwencja wiedenska) - Komentarz (1997) 234
CITATIONS TO TEXT OF DECISION Original language (German): cisg-online.ch <http://www.cisg-online.ch/cisg/urteile/23.htm>; Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (NJW) 1991, 3102-3103; Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft (RIW) 1991, 591-592; Der Betrieb (DB) 1991, 1512; Die deutsche Rechtsprechung auf dem Gebiete des internationalen Privatrechts im Jahre (IPRspr) 1991 No. 38 [75-77]; Uniform Law Review (1991-1) 372-375; Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=4&step=FullText> Translation: Unavailable CITATIONS TO COMMENTS ON DECISION
English: Honnold, Uniform Law for International Sales (1999) 279 [Art. 39(1) (specificity of notice)]; Behr, 17 Journal of Law and Commerce (1998) 266-288 [abstracts and comments on 29 interest rulings from 10 countries (this case presented at 271-272)]; Karollus, Cornell Review of the CISG (1995) 51 [75]; Ferrari, International legal Forum (4/1998) 138-255 [247 n.1027, 253 n.1079 (interest issues)]; Ferrari, 15 Journal of Law and Commerce (1995) 116-125; Koneru, 6 Minnesota Journal of Global Trade (1997) 123-138 [each commentary discusses interest issues, citing this and other cases]; Thiele, 2 Vindobono Journal (1998) 3-35, citing this case [n.63] and 42 other interest rulings; Schwenzer, ibid, [Art. 35 (burden of proof)] 288 n.143, [Art. 39] 312 n.22a; Huber, ibid, [Art. 45 (burden of proof)] 360 n.23; Winship in: Contemporary International Law Issues: Opportunities at a Time of Momentous Change (1994) 122 [126-127]; Bernstein & Lookofsky, Understanding the CISG in Europe, 2d ed., Kluwer (2003) § 4-4 n.46; § 6-31 n.353 [cite as 13 April 1991]; Liu Chengwei, Recovery of interest (November 2003) n.233; [2004] S.A. Kruisinga, (Non-)conformity in the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: a uniform concept?, Intersentia at 57; 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]; [2005] Schlechtriem & Schwenzer ed., Commentary on UN Convention on International Sale of Goods, 2d (English) ed., Oxford University Press, Art. 35 para. 49 Art. 39 para. 6
Dutch: Herbots in: van Houtte/Eraw, Het Weens Koopverdrag (1997) No. 4.30 [119 n.50] [cited as 13 April 1991]
jurisprudentielles du droit
uniforme de la vente internationale (L.G.D.J., Paris 1995) 86-87,
105-106 n.114 n.116
German: Herber, Entscheidungen zum Wirtschaftsrecht (EWiR) Art. 1 CISG
1/91, 1199-1200; Jametti-Greiner, Schweizerische Zeitschrift
internationales und Schweizerisches Recht (SZIER) 5/1993, 653;
Karollus, [österreichisches] Recht der Wirtschaft (öRdW) 1991, 319 [320];
Piltz, Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (1994) 1101; Strömer/Le Fevre,
Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht (EuZW) 1992,
210-213;
Schwenzer in von Caemmerer/Schlechtriem, Kommentar zum Einheitlichen
UN-Kaufrecht (2d ed
. 1995) 359 n.22a [Art. 39]
Italian: Bonell, Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (1992) 633 No. 1
Spanish: Perales, Cuadernos Jurídicos 3 (1996) No. 43, 5 [7
n.27] [commentary on Article 78: determination of rate of interest under the CISG (review of case law)] Go to Case Table of Contents