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Published in J. Herbots editor / R. Blanpain general editor, International
Encyclopaedia of Laws - Contracts, Suppl. 29 (December 2000) 1-192. Reproduced with permission of the publisher Kluwer Law International, The Hague.
[For more current case annotated texts by this author, see Bernstein & Lookofsky, Understanding the CISG in Europe, 2d ed. (2003) and Lookofsky, Understanding the CISG in the USA, 2d ed. (2004).]
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The 1980 United Nations Convention on Contracts
for the International Sale of Goods
Joseph Lookofsky
Article 24
Declaration of Intention: Definition of ‘Reach’
133. Part II of the Convention concludes with Article 24 which defines the point in time at which a declaration of intention (offer, acceptance, etc.) is considered to 'reach'[1] the addressee:
'For the purposes of this part of the Convention, an offer, declaration of acceptance
or any other indication of intention reaches the addressee when it is made orally to him
or delivered by any other means to him personally, to his place of business or mailing
address or, if he does not have a place of business or mailing address, to his habitual
residence.'
1. The definition of this term has significance in relation to Articles 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21 and 22. [page 77]
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