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CISG-online number
57
Case name
Bacon case I
Jurisdiction
Germany
Court
Oberlandesgericht Hamm (Court of Appeal Hamm)
Chamber
19. Zivilsenat (19th panel for civil matters)
Date of decision
22 September 1992
Case nr./docket nr.
19 U 97/91
Claimant 1
Place of business
Italy
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
Bacon case I
Landgericht Bielefeld (District Court Bielefeld)
Germany, 18 January 1991 – 15 O 201/90, CISG-online 174
Present decision affirming in part, reversing in part
Seller 1
Place of business
Italy
Buyer 1
Place of business
Germany
Category of goods
1: Meat and meat preparations
Goods as per contract
200 tons of bacon
Price
275'000.00 DEM (Deutsche Mark)
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(b)
CISG applied
yes
(Domestic) law applied in addition
Italian law
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 4(a); Art. 19(1); Art. 25; Art. 64(1)(a); Art. 75; Art. 76; Art. 77; Art. 78
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 8(2); Art. 18(1); Art. 23; Art. 52; Art. 61(1)(b); Art. 71; Art. 74
Editorial remark
Piltz, La Ley v. 5.09.1994
Decision published in 2
OLG-Report (OLGR) Hamm (1993), 27 [Leitsatz (headnote) – in German]
Transportrecht – Beilage Internationales Handelsrecht (TranspR-IHR) (1999), 24
CLOUT number
227
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
920922g1
Comments on this decision 2
Karen Halverson Cross, 'Parol Evidence Under the CISG: The "Homeward Trend" Reconsidered', 68 Ohio State Law Journal (Ohio St. L.J.) (2007), 133–160, at 156–157 [– in English]  
Ulrich G. Schroeter, Internationales UN-Kaufrecht, 7th ed., Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (2022), at no. 683 [– in German]
Full text and abstract of decision 2