Germany 16 January 1992 Appellate Court Koblenz (Motor yacht case)
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Primary source(s) for case presentation: Michael R. Will; UNCITRAL abstract; Unilex abstract
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CASE NUMBER/DOCKET NUMBER: 5 U 534/91
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CASE HISTORY: 1st instance LG Koblenz (1O259/90) 7 March 1991 [reversed]
SELLER'S COUNTRY: Netherlands (plaintiff)
BUYER'S COUNTRY: Germany (defendant)
GOODS INVOLVED: Motor yacht
GERMANY: OLG Koblenz 16 January 1992
Case law on UNCITRAL texts (CLOUT) abstract no. 226
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A Dutch seller, plaintiff, sold a yacht to a German company. Under the contract, the seller retained title to the yacht . . . The yacht was subsequently transferred to the defendant, a silent partner of the German company. When the German company was declared bankrupt, the parties disputed the validity of the retention of title clause. The court held that the CISG did not apply to the validity of a retention of title clause.
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APPLICATION OF CISG: No [Article 4(b)]
APPLICABLE CISG PROVISIONS AND ISSUES
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EDITOR: Albert H. Kritzer
The court held that the CISG does not apply to the validity of a
retention of title clause.
English: Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=30&step=Abstract>
Italian: Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (1994) 852 No. 34
CITATIONS TO TEXT OF DECISION
Original language (German): cisg-online.ch <http://www.cisg-online.ch/cisg/urteile/47.htm>; Recht der Internationalen Wirtschaft (RIW) 1992, 1019-1021; Die deutsche Rechtsprechung auf dem Gebiete des internationalen Privatrechts im Jahre (IPRspr) 1992 No. 72 [166-168]; Praxis des internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) 1994, 46-49; Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=30&step=FullText>
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CITATIONS TO COMMENTS ON DECISION
English: Ferrari, International Legal Forum (4/1998) 138-255 [226 n.787 (scope of CISG: passing of property in goods sold)]; Lookofsky, Understanding the CISG in Scandinavia (1996) 119 n.16; Bernstein & Lookofsky, Understanding the CISG in Europe, 2d ed., Kluwer (2003) § 2-5 n.31; § 7-2 n.20; [2005] Schlechtriem & Schwenzer ed., Commentary on UN Convention on International Sale of Goods, 2d (English) ed., Oxford University Press, Art. 14 para. 16 Art. 30 para. 8
French: Witz, Les premières applications jurisprudentielles du droit
uniforme de la vente internationale (L.G.D.J., Paris: 1995) 36, 39
Spanish: Castellanos, Autonomia de la voluntad y derecho uniforme en la compraventa
internacional, thesis, Carlos III de Madrid (1998) 152-153
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