ANNOTATED TEXT OF CISG
Article 78

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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]
  
• Use of the UNIDROIT Principles to help interpret CISG Article 78
• Use of the Principles of European Contract Law to help interpret CISG article 78
  • Match-ups with Continental and Common Law domestic rules, doctrine and jurisprudence

• Roadmap to the legislative history of this article
  • Chronology of development of Article 78 at the 1980 Vienna Diplomatic Conference
• [No Secretariat Commentary exists (text created at Diplomatic Conference)]
• [No match-up of this article with the 1978 draft]
• Hague Convention antecedent
  • Article 78 match-up with ULIS
  • ULIS (full-text) and André Tunc Commentary on ULIS

• • Franco Ferrari [Italy], CISG case law on the rate of interest on sums in arrears/Le taux d'intérêt applicable au montant des arriérés dans la jurisprudence concernant la CVIM, Revue de Droit des Affairs Internationales/International Business Law Journal (1999) 86-93

  • Martin Karollus [Austria], excerpt from Judicial Interpretation and Application of the CISG in Germany 1988-1994, Cornell Review of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (1995) 51-94

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

• Comments on Article 78 from seminal 1986 text by Peter Schlechtriem [Germany]
• Comments on Article 78 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

• Volker Behr [Germany], The Sales Convention in Europe: From Problems in Drafting to Problems in Practice [analysis of court rulings on rate of interest], 17 Journal of Law and Commerce (1998) 263-299

• Franco Ferrari [Italy], Uniform Application and Interest Rates Under the 1980 Vienna Sales Convention, Cornell Review of the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (Kluwer 1995) 3-19

• Karin L. Kizer [U.S.], Minding the Gap; Determining Interest Rates Under the U.N. Convention for the International Sale of Goods, 65 University of Chicago Law Review (1998) 1279-1306

• Phanesh Koneru [India/U.S.], The International Interpretation of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: An Approach Based on General Principles, 6 Minnesota Journal of Global Trade (Winter 1997) 105-152

• Peter Schlechtriem [Germany], excerpt from Uniform Sales Law: The Experience with Uniform Sales Laws in the Federal Republic of Germany, Juridisk Tidskrift (1991/91) 1-28

• 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

• Pilar Perales Viscasillas [Spain], La determinación del tipo de interés en la compraventa internaciónal [commentary on Article 78: determination of rate of interest under the CISG (review of case law on the subject) - in Spanish], Cuadernos Jurídicos (julio-agosto 1996) No. 43, 5-12
• Daniela Roßmeir, Schadensersatz und Zinsen nach UN-Kaufrecht - Art. 74 bis 78 CISG [Damages (compensation) and interest under the CISG: Arts. 74-79 - in German], Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft (2000) 407-415

• Christian Thiele [Germany], Interest on Damages and Rate of Interest Under Article 78 of the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, 2 Vindobono Journal (1998) 3-35 [Pace essay submission]

• T.S. Twibell [U.S.], Implementation of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) under Shari'a (Islamic law): Will Article 78 of the CISG be enforced when the forum is in an Islamic State?, 9 International Legal Perspectives (Spring-Fall 1997) 25-92

• Allan F. Zoccolillo, Jr. [United States], Determination of the Interest Rate under the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods: General Principles vs. National Law, 1 Vindobona Journal (1997) 3-43

• To identify other relevant commentaries, go to Bibliography and Bibliography Search Form [interest and remed* (stem for remedy/remedies) are search form entries you may wish to consider]

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Links to related articles

• For another reference to interest, go to Annotated Text of Article 84 [Restitution of benefits] (84(1) [seller required to pay interest when bound to refund the price])

• There are also situations in which interest can be recovered under the CISG's general rule for measuring damages; go to Annotated Text of Article 74

Words, phrases and concepts

• 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