The new German law of obligations
Subtitle: historical and comparative perspectives
By: Reinhard Zimmermann.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780199291373
Subjects: Contracts -- Germany; Obligations (Law) -- Germany; Sales -- Germany; Performance (Law) -- Germany
Description: This is a critical assessment of the new law which analyses the liability for general non-performance, non-conformity in sales law, and the protection of consumers; it also examines how the reform has moved German contract law closer to European patterns.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The German civil code and the development of private law in Germany; title: Remedies for non-performance, viewed against the background of the principles of European contract law; title: The development of liability for non-conformity in German sales law; title: The new German law of prescription and Chapter 14 of the principles of European contract law; title: Consumer contract law and general contract law.