Contract of International
Sale of Goods
Special provisions – contract performance
Choice
of Law Clauses
Applicable
Law/ Gorvening Law
The validity and performance of this purchase shall
be goverened by the laws of the state shown on
the Buyer’s address on the order
The
contract between the parties is made,
governed by and shall be construed with the laws
of Canada applicable there, which shall be deemed
to be the proper hereof…’
Transactions
A
covered in CISG
sale involving a buyer and seller with
places of business in different countries
Te
d
Kim
purchases $200 of fruit and vegetable
from an on-line supplier called “Food On
The Go”. The products are described on
the web page with photos and prices per
kilogram. When the fruit and vegetables
are delivered, Kim notices that half the
fruit she ordered is unfit to eat and the
patatoes are not the variety she ordered
Kim
Guz
purchased a pair of jeans that were
on sale (20% off) at Northshore jeanery
Pty.Ltd. The first time Guz wore the jeans
the zip broke and the stitching around the
waistband became loose. Guz returns the
jeans and requests a refund, but the sales
assistant points to a sign displayed above
the cash register “no refunds or exchange
on Sale items”. What should Guz do?
David goes to an electrical shop, which
specializes in selling TVs, DVD players and
other sound systems and asks for “all
region” DVD player. When he inserts a new
DVD imported from the US, he discovers
that it will not play because the DVD player
does not cater for that region. Which
implied terms have been breached