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CISG-online number
117
Case name
Chinchilla furs case
Jurisdiction
Austria
Court
Oberster Gerichtshof (Austrian Supreme Court)
Judges
Dr. Melber (Presiding Judge), Dr. Graf (Judge), Dr. Ernst Tittel (Judge), Dr. Peter Schinko (Judge), Dr. Peter Baumann (Judge)
Date of decision
10 November 1994
Case nr./docket nr.
2 Ob 547/93
Claimant 1
Name
Heidi M[...]
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Name
Rudolf K[...]
Place of business
Austria
Role in transaction
Buyer
Case History
Chinchilla furs case
Bezirksgericht Leibnitz (Local Court Leibnitz)
Austria, 27 October 1992 – 4 C 2856/91 f, CISG-online 211
Chinchilla furs case
Landesgericht für Zivilrechtssachen Graz (District Court Graz)
Austria, 04 March 1993 – 5 R 23/93, CISG-online 212
affirming
Present decision affirming
Seller 1
Name
Heidi M[...]
Place of business
Germany
Buyer 1
Name
Rudolf K[...]
Place of business
Austria
Role in trade
Dealer / Trader
Category of goods
21: Hides, skins and furskins, raw
Goods as per contract
249 chinchilla furs
Price
11'800.00 DEM (Deutsche Mark)
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(a)
CISG applied
yes
Key CISG provisions interpreted and applied
Art. 14(1); Art. 57(1)(a)
Key CISG provisions interpreted
Art. 58
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 8(2); Art. 8(3)
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 1(1)(a); Art. 10; Art. 55; Art. 99
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Tribunale di Forlì (District Court Forlì)
Italy, 12 November 2012 – 616/2011, CISG-online 2594
Mitias d.o.o. v. Solidea S.r.l.
Tribunale di Forlì (District Court Forlì)
Italy, 09 December 2008 – 2280/2007, CISG-online 1729
Conveyor belts case I
Oberlandesgericht Linz (Court of Appeal Linz)
Austria, 23 March 2005 – 6 R 200/04f, CISG-online 1376
Frame profiles and ceiling rails case
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Austria, 09 March 2000 – 6 Ob 311/99z, CISG-online 573
Decision published in 5
Juristische Blätter (JBl) (1995), 253–254 [Full text – in German]
Zeitschrift für Europarecht, Internationales Privatrecht und Rechtsvergleichung (ZfRV) (1995), 79–81 [Full text – in German]
Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) (1996), 137–139 [Full text – in German]
67 Sammlung Zivilsachen: Entscheidungen des Österreichischen Obersten Gerichtshofes in Zivilsachen (SZ) 197 [Full text – in German]
6 Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration (VJ) (2002), 147–152 [Full text (translation) – in English]
CLOUT number
106
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
941110a3
Comments on this decision 6
Aleksandrs Fillers, 'Open-Price Contracts Under the CISG: The Law in Action', 35(2) European Business Law Review (EBLR) (2024), 263–288, at 269 [– in English]
Martin Karollus, 'Anmerkung zu OGH 10.11.1994 - 2 Ob 547/93', Juristische Blätter (JBl) (1995), 254–256 [– in German]
Ulrich Magnus, 'Unbestimmter Preis und UN-Kaufrecht: zu OGH, 10.11.1994 - 2 Ob 547/93', Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts (IPRax) (1996), 145–148 [– in German]
Ulrich G. Schroeter, Internationales UN-Kaufrecht, 7th ed., Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (2022), at no. 302 [– in German]
Fan Yang, 'A Comparative Case Study of the Interpretation Methodology of Article 14 of the CISG: A Global Jurisconsultorium Perspective', 10 European Journal of Law Reform (EJLR) (2008), 3–20, at 5–6 [– in English]  
Fan Yang, 'CISG, CIETAC Arbitration and the Rule of Law in the P.R. of China: A Global Jurisconsultorium Perspective', in: Camilla Baasch Andersen & Ulrich G. Schroeter (eds.), Sharing International Commercial Law across National Boundaries: Festschrift for Albert H. Kritzer on the Occasion of his Eightieth Birthday, London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill (2008), 600–626, at 606–607 [– in English]
Full text, translation and abstract of decision 3
Abstract of decision
CLOUT Abstract 106 (Language: English)
Full text of decision
Original language: German
Translation of decision
Language: English
translated by
Martin Eimer & Ruth M. Janal