ANNOTATED TEXT OF CISG
Article 53

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  • Chronology of development of Article 53 at the 1980 Vienna Diplomatic Conference
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  • Article 53 match-up with ULIS
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• For further information on CISG case law (material not in this database), go to Unilex: click for a description of the contents of this service. Also of considerable utility are the compendium of case citations and the CISG bibliography contained in Michael R. Will, Twenty Years of International Sales Law Under the CISG: International Bibliography and Case Law Digest, Kluwer Law International (2000). Prof. Will's materials are presented on the CD-Rom edition of the database.

• Selected monographs and anthologies (English language)

• Comments on Article 53 from 1999 text by John O. Honnold [U.S.] [available in CD-ROM edition only]

• Comments on Article 53 from seminal 1986 text by Peter Schlechtriem [Germany]

• Comments on Article 53 from monograph by Jacob S. Ziegel [Canada]

• Citations to materials on this article in other texts (selected texts only)
• Selected law journal articles and other commentaries

• Lief Sevón, Obligations of the Buyer under the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods, Suomalainen Lakimiesten Yhdistys: - Tidskrift utgiven av Juridiska Föreningen i Finland 126 (1990) 327-343

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Links to related articles

• Article 30 introduces the CISG's chapter on Obligations of the buyer. This chapter contains three sections: Section I. Payment of the price: go to Annotated Texts of Articles 54 through 59 for the appropriate links; Section II. Taking delivery: go to Annotated Text of Article 60 for the appropriate link; Section III. Remedies for breach of contract by the buyer: go to Annotated Texts of Articles 61 through 65 for the appropriate links

Words, phrases and concepts

• currency. The Convention does not deal with the currency in which payment is to be made. One may conclude from Article 53 that the price shall be paid for as provided in the contract. It is debatable whether this rules out the application of provisions of national law, according to which payment may be made in another currency than that of the contract." Lief Sevón, Obligations of the Buyer under the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods (1990) at 332.

• reasonableness: Although not specifically mentioned in this article, reasonableness is a general principle of the CISG
  • For the definition of reasonableness recited in the Principles of European Contract Law and references to reasonableness in Continental and Common Law domestic rules, doctrine and jurisprudence, go to PECL article 1:302 and the comment and notes prepared for this provision

  • To drive home the correlation between the PECL's definition of reasonableness and the evident same meaning of this term to CISG legislators when they used the concept either specifically or as a general principle of the uniform law they drafted, see overview comments and comments that illustrate the similar manner in which this concept fits the CISG