ANNOTATED TEXT OF CISG
Article 59

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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.

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• Article 59 [Payment due without request] is contained in the section entitled Payment of the price. This section has six articles. For the other five articles, go to Annotated Text of Article 54 [Enabling steps]; go to Annotated Text of Article 55 [Open-price contracts]; go to Annotated Text of Article 56 [Net weight]; go to Annotated Text of Article 57 [Place for payment]; go to Annotated Text of Article 58 [Payment due without request]

Words, phrases and concepts

• without the need for any request or compliance with any formality. "This provision makes it clear that payment is not subject to any formal demand by the seller in order to become due." 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