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CISG-online number
358
Case name
Italian ham case
Jurisdiction
Germany
Court
Amtsgericht Riedlingen (Local Court Riedlingen)
Date of decision
21 October 1994
Case nr./docket nr.
2 C 395/93
Claimant 1
Place of business
Italy
Role in transaction
Seller
Respondent 1
Place of business
Germany
Role in transaction
Buyer
Seller 1
Place of business
Italy
Buyer 1
Place of business
Germany
Category of goods
1: Meat and meat preparations
Goods as per contract
105.32 kilograms of ham and 227.7 kilograms of Parma ham
Price
6'756.32 DEM (Deutsche Mark)
CISG applicable
yes, Art. 1(1)(a)
CISG applied
yes
(Domestic) law applied in addition
Italian law
Key CISG provisions interpreted and applied
Art. 39(1)
Key CISG provisions applied
Art. 38(1)
CISG provisions also cited
Art. 53; Art. 62; Art. 78
This decision is cited by 1
Chicago Prime Packers, Inc. v. Northam Food Trading Co.
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
USA, 21 May 2004 – 01 C 4447, CISG-online 851
Decision published in 1
Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (Dir. com. int.) (1996), No. 104, 631–632 [Abstract – in Italian]
European Case Law Identifier (ECLI)
ECLI:DE:AGRIEDL:1994:1021.2C395.93.0A
Case identifier in the old Albert H. Kritzer Database
941021g1
Comment on this decision 1
Andrew J. Kennedy, 'Recent Developments: Non-conforming Goods Under the CISG - What's a Buyer to Do?', 16 Dickinson Journal of International Law (Dick. J. Int'l L.) (1998), 319–341, at 337 [– in English]  
Full text and translation of decision 2
Full text of decision
Original language: German
Translation of decision
Language: English
translated by
Peter Feuerstein & Ruth M. Janal