Formation of Contract According to the CISG

Year 2013, Volume: 6 Issue: 1, 125 - 152, 01.01.2013

Belkıs Vural

Abstract

Formation of contract is one of the crucial topics that have been governed uniformly by United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and even a compromise area between Common Law and Continental European Law (Civil Law) systems. The main focus of the work will be on commonly accepted offer-acceptance model through conceptual clarifications and even some comparisons between the German Approach and the Convention in terms of formation of contract.

Keywords

Formation of Contract, Criteria of Offer, Irrevocability of Offer, Types of Acceptance, Standard Contracts Terms, Battle of Forms, Late Acceptance

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