LEX MERCATORIA: INTERPRETATION ****************************** INTERPRETATION OF LEGAL TEXTS ----------------------------- Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties,; Signed at Vienna 23 May 1969, Entry into Force 27 January 1980 [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^1] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] INTERPRETATION AS DEALT WITH WITHIN PARTICULAR CONVENTIONS .......................................................... Sale of Goods: CISG - The Vienna Sales Convention 1980 [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^2] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] For Interpretation of the Convention Text, see For discerning a party's intent, see Principles of International Commercial Contracts [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^3] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] UNIDROIT, Rome, 1994 For interpretation of the Principles see For interpretation of contracts made under these principles, see Article 4.1 - Intention of the Parties Article 4.2 - Interpretation of Statements and Other Conduct Article 4.3 - Relevant Circumstances Article 4.4 - Reference to Contract or Statement as a Whole Article 4.5 - All Terms to be Given Effect Article 4.6 - Contra Proferentem Rule Article 4.7 - Linguistic Discrepancies Article 4.8 - Supplying an Omitted Term For interpretation of the Principles see This is the the revised complete text. The provision 1.106 was 1.104 in the previous text. (the text identical to earlier provision) For interpretation of contracts made under these principles, see Article 5.101 (ex art. 7.101/ 101A) - General Rules of Interpretation Article 5.102 (ex art. 7.102) - Relevant Circumstances United Nations Convention on the Limitation Period in the International Sale of Goods [link: ] document manifest [link: ] [^4] html, segmented text [link: ] html, scroll, document in one [link: ] pdf, landscape [link: ] pdf, portrait [link: ] odf:odt, open document text [link: ] plain text utf-8 [link: ] concordance [link: ] dcc, document content certificate (digests) [link: ] For interpretation see Article 7 which is identical in the 1974 and 1980 versions United Nations Convention on the Carriage of Goods by Sea (The Hamburg Rules) (Hamburg, 30 March 1978) For interpretation see INTERPRETATION OF INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS WITHIN THE COMMONWEALTH ................................................................... Fothergill v Monarch Airlines Ltd. House of Lords 1980 Whilst there have been numerous judgments on the subject, this is provided as an invaluable starting point, for consideration and further research. [1]: [2]: [3]: [4]: ============================================================================== Title: Lex Mercatoria: Interpretation Creator: Lex Mercatoria http://lexmercatoria.org/ Ralph Amissah Rights: Copyright (C) 2004 Lex Mercatoria http://lexmercatoria.org/ Ralph Amissah Subject: interpretation of law Publisher: SiSU http://www.jus.uio.no/sisu (this copy) Date: 2004 Sourcefile: interpretation.sst Filetype: SiSU text 2.0 Source digest: SHA256(interpretation.sst)= 9e758d42f75b8faa5cd020566e2c1d5e0a67f9ad29aba640d7dfb4198fd2be50 Skin digest: SHA256(skin_lm.rb)= 5acda64a9532f9ef6b71693da2b471d4efac2f23a8499e68de066eec8ea9b8e9 Generated by: Generated by: SiSU 2.6.3 of 2010w30/3 (2010-07-28) Ruby version: ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i486-linux] Document (dal) last generated: Tue Sep 21 17:16:22 -0400 2010 ============================================================================== Other versions of this document: manifest: http://www.jus.uio.no/lm//interpretation/sisu_manifest.html html: http://www.jus.uio.no/lm//interpretation/toc.html pdf: http://www.jus.uio.no/lm//interpretation/portrait.pdf http://www.jus.uio.no/lm//interpretation/landscape.pdf plaintext (plain text): http://www.jus.uio.no/lm//interpretation/plain.txt at: http://lexmercatoria.org * Generated by: SiSU 2.6.3 of 2010w30/3 (2010-07-28) * Ruby version: ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [i486-linux] * Last Generated on: Tue Sep 21 17:16:23 -0400 2010 * SiSU http://www.sisudoc.org/