France 26 September 1995 Appellate Court Colmar (Ceramique Culinaire v. Musgrave)
[Cite as: http://cisgw3.law.pace.edu/cases/950926f1.html]
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CASE NUMBER/DOCKET NUMBER: 1B 94-00488
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CASE HISTORY: 1st instance Tribunal de Grande Instance de Strasbourg 17 November 1993; 3d instance Cour de Cassation 17 December 1996 [reversing]
SELLER'S COUNTRY: France (defendant)
BUYER'S COUNTRY: Ireland (plaintiff)
GOODS INVOLVED: Ceramic baking dishes (cake pans, soufflé pans, etc.)
Classification of issues present
APPLICATION OF CISG: Court ruled against applicability of CISG despite parties having selected law of a Contracting State
APPLICABLE CISG PROVISIONS AND ISSUES
Key CISG provisions at issue: Article
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Descriptors:
(a) UNCITRAL abstract: Unavailable
(b) Other abstracts
English: Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=236&step=Abstract>
CITATIONS TO TEXT OF DECISION
Original language (French): CISG-France website ("http://Witz.jura.uni-sb.de/CISG/decisions/260995v.htm"); Unilex database <http://www.unilex.info/case.cfm?pid=1&do=case&id=236&step=FullText>
Translation: Unavailable
CITATIONS TO COMMENTS ON DECISION
English: Ferrari, International Legal Forum (4/1998) 138-255 [216 n.707 (criticism of implicit exclusion of CISG)]; [2005] Schlechtriem & Schwenzer ed., Commentary on UN Convention on International Sale of Goods, 2d (English) ed., Oxford University Press, Art. 6 para. 14
German: [1999] Transportrecht, Beilage "Internationales Handelsrecht" (TranspR-IHR) 13 [14 n.12]
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