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Author:   Professor Michael Bridge
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   2nd Revised edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 5.00cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.574kg
ISBN:  

9780199273584

ISBN 10:   0199273588
Pages:   840
Publication Date:   02 August 2007
Audience:   Adult education ,  Further / Higher Education
Replaced By:   9780199658251
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

PART A: INTERNATIONAL SALES GOVERNED BY ENGLISH LAW; 1. Introduction to International Sales; a. Subject Matter; b. Organizations; c. Choice of Law; d. Speculation, Hedging and String Trading; 2. The Performance Obligations of Seller and Buyer in English Law; a. Interpretation of the Contract; b. Implied Terms of Quality, Fitness and Description in International Commodity Sales; c. Quantity: Entire and Severable Contracts; d. Privity of Contract; 3. FOB Contracts; a. Nature of FOB Contracts; b. Readiness to Load; c. Port of Shipment; d. Shipment; e. Documentary Tender; 4. CIF Contracts; a. The Nature of a CIF Transaction; b. Notice of Appropriation / Declaration of Shipment; c. Timely Performance; d. Bills of Lading; e. Continuous Documentary Coverage; f. Bill of Lading Supplemented by Charter Party; g. Delivery Orders and Bulk Shipments; h. Insurance Documents; i. Lawful and Effective Documents; j. Other documents; k. Documentary Tender and Exhcange; l. Arrival of the Ship; 5. Import and Export Licenses; a. Applying for Export and Import Licences; b. Guaranteed Procurement or Due Diligence to Procure?; 6. Payment; a. Introduction; b. Negotiabile Instruments; c. Bank Collections and Letters of Credit; 7. Impossibility of Performance; a. Initial Impossibility (Mistake); b. Subsequent Impossibility (Frustration); 8. Passing of Property and Risk; a. Passing of Property; b. Reserving the Right of Disposal; c. Transfer of Risk; d. Retrospective appropriation of Lost Cargoes; 9. Bills of Lading and Documents of Title; a. The Buyer and the Carrier; b. Bill of Lading as a Document of Title; c. Evidentiary Function of Bills of Lading; d. Bills of Lading: Other Matters; e. Other Shipping Documents; f. Non-Negotiable Documents and the Power to Transfer Title; g. Alternatives to the Negotiable Bill of Lading; 10. Remedies: Termination and Damages; a. Termination of the Contract; d. The Integrity of the Documentary Exchange; c. Damages; d. Excluding the Sale of Goods Act Rules; e. The Twin Rights of Rejection and the Seller's Damages Liability; PART B: INTERNATIONAL SALES GOVERNED BY THE UN SALES CONVENTION 1980 (CISG); 111. The CISG: General Issues; a. Introduction; b. Background to the CISG; c. Sphere of Application; d. Field of Operation; e. Exclusions; f. Role of UNIDROIT Principles; g. Interpretation and Good Faith; h. Filling Gaps in the Coverage of the CISG; i. Excluding the CISG; j. Reservations and Declarations; k. Usages and Practices; 12. The CISG and English Law Compared; a. Formation of the Contract; b. Conformity of the Goods; c. Avoidance; d. Anticipatory Breach; e. Cure and Notice of Defect; f. Rejection of the Goods; g. Requiring Performance; h. Money Claims; i. Frustration of Contract

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Professor Michael Bridge is a qualified barrister who has also had a close involvement with a leading firm of solicitors. He has extensive overseas experience, including a lengthy period as a professor in McGill University, Montreal, and travels extensively in continental Europe, the Far East and Australasia in connection with his work. Currently Professor of Commercial Law at UCL, he was previously a professor at the University of Nottingham and at McGill University, Montreal. He is the author of numerous books in the field of commercial law, and many articles and chapters in leading journals and collections. He has also held office as Head of the Law Department of the University of Nottingham and as Dean of the Faculty of Laws of UCL.

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