On the Development of European Standard Contract Terms

European Review of Contract Law

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-76

  Whittaker, Simon ^a  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84881674086     PISSN: 16149920     EISSN: 16149939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ERCL.2006.004     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Perhaps, indeed, the force of lex and loi is stronger than merely ‘the law’ and should refer to ‘legislation’.
2. J.-J. Rousseau, Du contrat social (1762) Liv II.
3. EC Commission, First Annual Report on European Contract Law and the Acquis Review, COM (2005) 456 final of 23 September 2005 (‘First Annual Report’), para 4.1 and see below, pp. 59–60.
4. Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and Council, A More Coherent European Contract Law: An Action Plan (‘The Action Plan’) COM (2003) 68 final.
5. europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/ contractlaw/2004workshop_en.htm (accessed September 2005). The following quotations in the text are taken from the unpaginated note of proceedings available at this web address.
6. EC Commission, Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council: European Contract Law and the Revision of the Acquis: the Way Forward (2004) (‘The Way Forward’) COM (2004) 651 final.
7. First Annual Report, para 4.1. The quotations in the following paragraphs of the text are all to be found at this place in the report.
8. These are published as: The Commission on European Contract (O. Lando / H. Beale [eds], Principles of European Contract Law, Parts I & II, prepared by the Commission on European Contract Law [The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1999]); id (O. Lando / E. Clive / A. Prüm / R. Zimmermann [eds], Principles of European Contract Law, part III [The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2003]).
9. B. Nicholas, ‘Rules and Terms-Civil Law and Common Law’ (1974) 48 Tulane Law Review 947.
10. th ed, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2003) Ch 6;
11. th ed, London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2004) Ch 12 and 13 (A.G. Guest).
12. Reardon Smith Line v Yngar Hansen-Tangen [1976] 1 WLR 989, 995–96 (Lord Wilberforce).
13. The most influential modern discussion is Lord Hoffmann’s speech in Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society, n 36 above, cit at 913–14.
14. Here, I translate qualification as ‘classification’. On this law see P. Malaurie / L. Aynès / P. Stoffel-Munck, Droit civil, Les obligations (2004) 363 giving Civ (3) 30 May 1969, D. 1969.561 as an example.
15. Gesetz zur Regelung des Rechts der Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen of 1976, replaced by a revised BGB para 307(1).
16. EC Commission, Green Paper on Financial Services Policy 2005–2010 COM (2005) 177 final, 11.
17. EC Commission, Green Paper on Mortgage Credit COM (2005) 327 final, 9.
18. Eg French law under the loi no 86–1290 relative au bail d’habitation of 23 December 1986, art 41ter (as amended).