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CISG ANTECEDENTS

Match-up of CISG article 25 with ULIS provisions

     CISG Article 25                          ULIS Article 10 
 
A breach of contract committed         For the purposes of the present 
by one of the parties is fundamental   Law, a breach of contract shall 
if it results in such detriment to     be regarded as fundamental 
the other party as substantially to    wherever the party in breach 
deprive him of what he is entitled     knew, or ought to have known, 
to expect under the contract,          at the time of the conclusion of
unless the party in breach did         the contract, that a reasonable 
not foresee and a reasonable person    person in the same situation as 
of the same kind in the same           the other party would not have 
circumstances would not have           entered in to the contract 
foreseen such a result.                if he had foreseen the breach 
                                       and its effects. 
 
SEE ALSO: 
 
ULIS Article 28.Failure to deliver the goods at the date fixed
shall amount to a fundamental breach of contract whenever a price for 
such goods is quoted on a market where the buyer can obtain them.