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Problems Of Performance Of Sales Contracts Under Japanese And American Law, Katsuro Kanzaki, William C. Jones
Problems Of Performance Of Sales Contracts Under Japanese And American Law, Katsuro Kanzaki, William C. Jones
Washington Law Review
This article will discuss the problem of performance of contracts for the sale of goods (personal property) under American and Japanese law. The discussion of American law will be limited almost entirely to the Uniform Commercial Code. Excluded from this discussion are risk of loss, impossibility and frustration, and products liability; these topics are treated elsewhere in this symposium.
Impossibility And Frustration In Sales Contracts, Kiyoshi Igarashi, Luvern V. Rieke
Impossibility And Frustration In Sales Contracts, Kiyoshi Igarashi, Luvern V. Rieke
Washington Law Review
Legal principles governing sales under Japanese law, a civil rather than common law system, are at some significant points different from the law of the United States. The treatment accorded problems in the two countries involving "impossibility" of performance and "frustration of purpose" present good examples of the differences. Indeed the latter doctrine, "frustration" in the sense of the well-known Coronation cases, may not have a genuine counterpart in the law of Japan. Historically the differentiation between impossibility and frustration has been difficult enough in the common law, as casual reading of the examples used by Judge Williams in Krell …
Formation Of Contracts For The Sale Of Goods, Calvin W. Corman
Formation Of Contracts For The Sale Of Goods, Calvin W. Corman
Washington Law Review
All advanced legal systems, and all bodies concerned with governing international trade transactions, are today struggling with the problems connected with the need to develop acceptable legal rules for contract formation, particularly involving the sale of goods. This article will set forth some of the problems that are inherent in contract formation, and will describe and compare some of the solutions offered (1) by the civil law systems, especially as seen in Japan, Germany, and France; (2) by the common law systems, especially as expressed both in the developing Second Restatement of Contracts and in the Uniform Commercial Code Article …
Formation Of Contracts For The Sale Of Goods, Calvin W. Corman
Formation Of Contracts For The Sale Of Goods, Calvin W. Corman
Washington Law Review
All advanced legal systems, and all bodies concerned with governing international trade transactions, are today struggling with the problems connected with the need to develop acceptable legal rules for contract formation, particularly involving the sale of goods. This article will set forth some of the problems that are inherent in contract formation, and will describe and compare some of the solutions offered (1) by the civil law systems, especially as seen in Japan, Germany, and France; (2) by the common law systems, especially as expressed both in the developing Second Restatement of Contracts and in the Uniform Commercial Code Article …
Impossibility And Frustration In Sales Contracts, Kiyoshi Igarashi, Luvern V. Rieke
Impossibility And Frustration In Sales Contracts, Kiyoshi Igarashi, Luvern V. Rieke
Washington Law Review
Legal principles governing sales under Japanese law, a civil rather than common law system, are at some significant points different from the law of the United States. The treatment accorded problems in the two countries involving "impossibility" of performance and "frustration of purpose" present good examples of the differences. Indeed the latter doctrine, "frustration" in the sense of the well-known Coronation cases, may not have a genuine counterpart in the law of Japan. Historically the differentiation between impossibility and frustration has been difficult enough in the common law, as casual reading of the examples used by Judge Williams in Krell …
Problems Of Performance Of Sales Contracts Under Japanese And American Law, Katsuro Kanzaki, William C. Jones
Problems Of Performance Of Sales Contracts Under Japanese And American Law, Katsuro Kanzaki, William C. Jones
Washington Law Review
This article will discuss the problem of performance of contracts for the sale of goods (personal property) under American and Japanese law. The discussion of American law will be limited almost entirely to the Uniform Commercial Code. Excluded from this discussion are risk of loss, impossibility and frustration, and products liability; these topics are treated elsewhere in this symposium.