- •Contents
- •Preface
- •Contributors
- •Abbreviations
- •General abbreviations
- •Introduction and Conclusions
- •Case studies: abbreviations by country
- •Austria
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •From the common law to the civil law: the experience of Israel
- •Note on translations of foreign language statutory provisions
- •1 Introduction
- •A. The Common Core Project
- •b. Method
- •2. Methodological criticism
- •a. Functionalism
- •b. Neutrality, scientific method and the politics of comparative law
- •B. The precontractual liability project
- •1. General
- •2. The questionnaire
- •a. Precontractual liability
- •b. Legal formants
- •3. The cases
- •4. The national reports
- •2 Case studies
- •Case 1: Negotiations for premises for a bookshop
- •Case 1
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 2: Negotiations for renewal of a lease
- •Case 2
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 3: Mistake about ownership of land to be sold
- •Case 3
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 4
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 5: A broken engagement
- •Case 5
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 6: An express lock-out agreement
- •Case 6
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 7: Breakdown of merger negotiations
- •Case 7
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 8: A shopping centre without a tenant
- •Case 8
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 9: Breakdown of negotiations to build a house for a friend
- •Case 9
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 10: Public bidding
- •Case 10
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 11
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 12: Confidential design information given during negotiations
- •Case 12
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •Case 13
- •Discussions
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •3 From the common law to the civil law: the experience of Israel
- •The dilemma
- •Israeli law under the common law: no rule of precontractual liability
- •Section 12 of the Contracts Law
- •Rule of precontractual liability
- •Civil law impact
- •Section 12 and other grounds of precontractual liability
- •Nature of liability under section 12
- •Evaluation of section 12
- •Analysis of cases
- •Case 1 Negotiations for premises for a bookshop
- •Case 2 Negotiations for renewal of a lease
- •Case 3 Mistake about ownership of land to be sold
- •Case 5 A broken engagement
- •Case 6 An express lock-out agreement
- •Case 7 Breakdown of merger negotiations
- •Case 8 A shopping centre without a tenant
- •Case 9 Breakdown of negotiations to build a house for a friend
- •Case 10 Public bidding
- •Case 11 A contract for the sale of a house which fails for the lack of formality
- •Case 12 Confidential design information given during negotiations
- •From a standard to rules: two categories of bad faith
- •Misrepresentation
- •Broken promises and frustrated expectations
- •Was there a price to be paid for the move?
- •4 A law and economics perspective on precontractual liability
- •The problem
- •Law and economics models of precontractual liability
- •An economic perspective on eight hypothetical cases
- •Case 1 Negotiations for premises for a bookshop
- •Case 2 Negotiations for renewal of a lease
- •Case 3 Mistake about ownership of land to be sold
- •Case 5 A broken engagement
- •Case 6 An express lock-out agreement
- •Case 8 A shopping centre without a tenant
- •Conclusion
- •5 Conclusions
- •The problem of precontractual liability
- •Peculiarity of the precontractual phase
- •Imposing liability in the precontractual phase: balancing the arguments
- •The negotiations: a legally significant relationship?
- •Expectation, reliance and shifting the economic risk of the negotiations
- •Placing the liability: contract, tort or tertium quid?
- •Two (extreme?) illustrations: English law and Dutch law
- •English law: the most restrictive?
- •Dutch law: the most expansive?
- •The range of solutions: similarity and difference in particular cases
- •Similarities of result?
- •Differences of result
- •Drawing together the threads
- •Different techniques in dealing with the precontractual phase
- •Influence of other legal practices and policies
- •Commercial context and risk allocation
- •Superficiality of similarity and difference in results
- •A common core?
- •Bibliography
- •1. General bibliography, introduction and conclusions
- •2. Case studies: bibliography by country
- •Austria
- •Denmark
- •England
- •Finland
- •France
- •Germany
- •Greece
- •Ireland
- •Italy
- •Netherlands
- •Norway
- •Portugal
- •Scotland
- •Spain
- •Sweden
- •Switzerland
- •3. From the common law to the civil law: the experience of Israel
- •Index
xviii ab brev iations
RabelsZ |
Rabels Zeitschrift fu¨r Auslandisches und |
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Internationales Privatrecht |
Case studies: abbreviations by country
Austria |
|
ABGB |
Allgemeines bu¨rgerliches Gesetzbuch (General |
|
Civil Code of Austria) |
BGBl |
Bundesgesetzblatt (Government Gazette) |
JBl |
Juristische Bla¨tter (law journal) |
LJZ |
Liechtensteinische Juristen-Zeitung |
OGH |
Oberster Gerichtsthof (Austrian Supreme |
|
Court) |
¨ |
¨ |
OJZ |
Osterreichische Juristen-Zeitung (law journal) |
RdW |
Recht der Wirtschaft (law journal) |
SZ |
Entscheidungen des o¨sterreichischen |
|
Obersten Gerichtshofes in Zivilsachen |
|
(decisions of the OGH in private law and |
|
administration of justice) |
England |
|
AC |
Law Reports, Appeal Cases |
All ER |
All England Law Reports |
All ER (Com) |
All England Law Reports, Commercial Cases |
All ER (D) |
All England Direct Law Reports |
B |
Baron |
Ch |
Law Reports, Chancery Division |
CLR |
Commonwealth Law Reports (Australia) |
CP |
Law Reports, Common Pleas |
DLR |
Dominion Law Reports (Canada) |
EGLR |
Estates Gazette Law Reports |
Ex |
Exchequer Reports, Welsby Hurlstone & |
|
Gordon |
EWCA Civ |
Court of Appeal (Civil Division) |
FSR |
Fleet Street Reports |
J |
Justice |
KB |
Law Reports, King’s Bench Division |
LJ |
Lord Justice |
LR |
Law Reports |
|
abbreviations |
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MR |
Master of the Rolls |
|
QB |
Law Reports, Queen’s Bench Division |
|
P & CR |
Property, Planning and Compensation Reports |
|
RPC |
Reports of Patent, Design and Trade Mark |
|
|
Cases |
|
SI |
Statutory Instrument |
|
WLR |
Weekly Law Reports |
|
Finland |
|
|
KKO |
Korkein oikeus (Yearbook of the Finnish |
|
|
Supreme Court) |
|
VahL |
Vahingonkorvauslaki (Damages Act, 1974) |
|
France |
|
|
al. |
alinea (paragraph within a provision of the |
|
|
Code) |
|
Bull Civ |
Bulletin civil de la Cour de cassation (reports |
|
|
of the civil chambers of the Cour de cassation) |
|
CA |
Cour d’appel |
|
CCC |
Contrats, concurrence, consommation (legal |
|
|
periodical) |
|
C.civ. |
Code civil (French Civil Code) |
|
Civ (1, 2, 3) |
Cour de cassation, Chambre civile (first, |
|
|
second, third chamber) |
|
Com |
Cour de cassation, Chambre commerciale |
|
D |
Recueil Dalloz or Dalloz Sirey (legal periodical, in |
|
|
three sections: ‘chron.’ is chronique, ‘som.’ is |
|
|
sommaires, ‘IR’ is informations rapides) |
|
DH |
Dalloz, Recueil hebdomadaire de jurisprudence |
|
|
(legal periodical) |
|
Gaz Pal |
Gazette du Palais (legal periodical) |
|
ICC |
International Chamber of Commerce |
|
J-Cl |
Juris-classeur (legal encyclopaedia, 1950, |
|
|
updated annually) |
|
JCP |
Jurisclasseur periodique, edition generale (legal |
|
|
periodical, also known as La Semaine Juridique) |
|
JCP ed E |
Jurisclasseur periodique, edition entreprise et affaires |
|
|
(legal periodical) |
|
obs |
observations |
|
PA |
Les Petites Affiches (legal periodical) |
|
xx |
ab brev iations |
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Req |
|
Chambre de requeˆtes of the Cour de cassation |
Rev. |
|
Revue |
RJDA |
|
Revue de jurisprudence de droit des affaires (legal |
|
|
periodical) |
RRJ |
|
Revue de la Recherche Juridique (legal periodical) |
RTDCiv |
|
Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Civil (legal periodical) |
RTDCom |
Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Commercial (legal |
|
|
|
periodical) |
Germany |
|
|
AcP |
|
Archiv fu¨r die civilistische Praxis (law journal) |
BGB |
|
Bu¨rgerliches Gesetzbuch (German Civil Code) |
BGH |
|
Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court) |
BGHZ |
|
Entscheidungen des Bundesgerichtshofs in |
|
|
Zivilsachen (official report of the |
|
|
Bundesgerichtshof) |
DB |
|
Der Betrieb (law journal, Du¨sseldorf) |
DTZ |
|
Deutsch-Deutsche Rechts-Zeitschrift (law journal, |
|
|
Munich) |
GWB |
|
Gesetz gegen Wettbewerbsbeschra¨nkungen |
|
|
(Act Against the Restraint of Competition) |
JuS |
|
Juristische Schulung (law journal, Munich) |
JZ |
|
Juristenzeitung (law journal, Tu¨bingen) |
LM |
|
Lindenmaier and Mo¨hring, Nachschlagwerk des |
|
|
Bundesgerichtshofs in Zivilsachen (decisions of |
|
|
the BGH) |
Mu¨nchKomm |
Mu¨nchener Kommentar zum Bu¨rgerlichen |
|
|
|
Gesetzbuch (4th edn, Mu¨nchen, 2001) (with |
|
|
name of author of article appended) |
NJW |
|
Neue Juristische Wochenschrift (law journal) |
NJW-RR |
Neue Juristische Wochenschrift – Rechtsprechungs- |
|
|
|
report (supplement to law journal with case |
|
|
reports in private law) |
RG |
|
Reichsgericht |
Rn. |
|
Randnummer (paragraph) |
sent. |
|
sentence |
Soergel |
|
T. Soergel, Bu¨rgerliches Gesetzbuch mit |
|
|
Einfu¨hrungsgesetz und Nebengesetzen (12th edn, |
|
|
Stuttgart, 1988) (with name of author of |
|
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article appended) |
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abbreviations |
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Staudinger |
J. von Staudinger, Kommentar zum Bu¨rgerlichen |
|
|
Gesetzbuch mit Einfu¨hrungsgesetz und |
|
|
Nebengesetzen (13th edn, Berlin, 1993) (with |
|
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name of author of article appended) |
|
UWG |
Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb |
|
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(Unfair Competition Act) |
|
WM |
Wertpapiermitteilungen, Zeitschrift fu¨r |
|
|
Wirtschaftsund Bankrecht (law journal) |
|
ZeuP |
Zeitschrift fu¨r Europa¨isches Privatrecht (law journal) |
|
ZRP |
Zeitschrift fu¨r Rechtspolitik (law journal) |
|
Greece |
|
|
AP |
Areios Pagos (Greek Supreme Court in Civil |
|
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and Criminal Matters) |
|
Arm |
Armenopoulos (law journal) |
|
ECR |
European Court Reports |
|
EEN |
Efimeris Ellinon Nomikon (law journal) |
|
EllD |
Helliniki Dikaiosini (law journal) |
|
GCC |
Greek Civil Code |
|
NoV |
Nomiko Vima (law journal) |
|
Ireland |
|
|
A & E |
Adolphus and Ellis’ Reports |
|
All ER |
All England Law Reports |
|
App Cas |
Law Reports, Appeal Cases |
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ChD |
Law Reports, Chancery Division |
|
Eq |
Equity |
|
ER |
English Reports |
|
FSR |
Fleet Street Reports |
|
HL |
House of Lords |
|
Hob |
Hobart’s Reports |
|
ILRM |
Irish Law Reports Monthly |
|
ILTR |
Irish Times Law Reports |
|
IR |
Irish Reports |
|
IRCL |
Irish Reports, Common Law |
|
LR |
Law Reports |
|
LR Ir |
Law Reports (Ireland), Chancery |
|
|
and Common Law |
|
NI |
Northern Ireland Law Reports |
|
P |
Pacific Reporter (United States) |
|