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Part I Sales Law: Development and Modern Practice, 4 Contract and the Law

From: Global Sales and Contract Law

Ingeborg Schwenzer, Pascal Hachem, Christopher Kee

Content type:
Book content
Product:
International Commercial Law [ICML]
Published in print:
26 January 2012
ISBN:
9780199572984

From: Oxford Legal Research Library (http://olrl.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 07 December 2023

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4.01 The relationship between a sales contract and the law can, for the purposes of this chapter, be loosely divided into two principle issues.1 Chronologically the first issue concerns which law governs the contract—namely what is the applicable law. As a contentious matter this typically only arises in the context of international or cross-border transactions. However, consciously or otherwise, the question of the applicable law must always be determined first. As is repeatedly demonstrated throughout this book, different legal systems offer different solutions;...
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