Austria 2 July 1993 Supreme Court (Domestic lease case)
[Cite as: http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/cases/930702a3.html]
Primary source(s) for case presentation: CISG-Austria website
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CASE NUMBER/DOCKET NUMBER: 1 Ob 525/93
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CASE HISTORY: 1st instance Bezirksgerichtes Wien (GZ 48 C 648/90-20) 12 May 1992; 2d instance Landesgericht Wien (GZ 48 R 692/92-23) 30 October 1992
SELLER'S COUNTRY: Austria (plaintiff)
BUYER'S COUNTRY: Austria (defendant)
GOODS INVOLVED: Case involved a domestic lease, not an international sale of goods.
APPLICATION OF CISG: No [obiter dicta reference]
APPLICABLE CISG PROVISIONS AND ISSUES
Key CISG provisions at issue: Article
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The argument was advanced that as a telex is regarded as a writing in CISG
Article 13, a telex should also be so regarded in a lease transaction. The
court rejected the application by analogy of the CISG to a lease transaction.
(a) UNCITRAL abstract: Unavailable
(b) Other abstracts
English: Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=165&step=Abstract>
CITATIONS TO TEXT OF DECISION
Original language (German): CISG-Austria website <http://www.cisg.at/1_52593.htm>; Juristische Blätter
1994, 119-121 [120]; Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=165&step=FullText>
Translation: Unavailable
CITATIONS TO COMMENTS ON DECISION
English: Gillette/Walt, Sales Law Domestic and International (Foundation Press 1999) 49 n.39 [scope of CISG: lease]
German: Posch, in Emptio-Venditio Internationes, Neumayer ed. (Basel
1997) 91 n.12, 97; Rummel, Juristische Blätter (1994) 121Classification of issues present
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