ANNOTATED TEXT OF CISG
Article 77

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Guide to this article

• UNCITRAL outline of issues present
  
• Editoral analysis of this article with cross-references to related subjects [not yet available]
  
• Secretariat Commentary (closest counterpart to an Official Commentary on this article)
  • Match-up of this article with the 1978 draft
  (to validate Secretariat Commentary)
• Use of the UNIDROIT Principles to help interpret CISG Article 77 [partial presentation]
• Use of the Principles of European Contract Law to help interpret CISG article 77
  • Match-ups with Continental and Common Law domestic rules, doctrine and jurisprudence

• Roadmap to the legislative history of this article
• Legislative history of this article: long form
• Legislative history of this article: short form
  • Chronology of development of Article 77 at the 1980 Vienna Diplomatic Conference
  • Conference proposal to apply Article 77 to remedies other than damages (proposal rejected)
• Summary of UNCITRAL legislative history
• Hague Convention antecedents
  • Article 77 match-up with ULIS
  • ULIS (full-text) and André Tunc Commentary on ULIS

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

• Comments on Article 77 from seminal 1986 text by Peter Schlechtriem [Germany]
• Comments on Article 77 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
• Jeffrey S. Sutton [U.S.], Measuring Damages under the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods, 50 Ohio State Law Journal (1989) 737-752
• To identify other relevant commentaries, go to Bibliography and Bibliography Search Form [damage* (stem for damages), mitigation and remed* (stem for remedy/remedies) are search form entries you may wish to consider]

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Links to related articles

• Article 77 is part of the section entitled Damages. This section contains four articles. For links to the other three articles, go to Annotated Text of Article 74 [General rules for measuring damages]; go to Annotated Text of Article 75 [Damages established by substitute transaction]; go to Annotated Text of Article 76 [Damages based on current price]

• Also relevant are the CISG's provisions on exemptions, go to Annotated Text of Article 79 [Impediment excusing party from damages] (the CISG's counterpart to force majeure); go to Annotated Text of Article 80 [Failure of Performance caused by other party]

Words, phrases and concepts

• reasonableness: In addition to being 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