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The Seller’s Liability Regime for Defects in Conformity in Sale and Purchase Contracts under German and Russian Law

https://doi.org/10.17803/1994-1471.2025.179.10.171-182

Abstract

Drawing on the experience of German law, the author demonstrates that the statutory conformity guarantee regime is not limited exclusively to the transfer of the goods. The physical transfer of the goods merely indicates that a lack of conformity existed at that moment. It serves as the condition for the termination of the statutory conformity guarantee and shows that the seller is liable for defects that arose prior to that moment. However, the guarantee takes effect from the moment the contract is concluded, because it is at this point that the parties define the essential characteristics of the goods. Any deviation from them is protected automatically. The buyer is not obliged to accept non-conforming goods and to perform their duty to accept the goods if they are already aware of the defects. This knowledge gives them the opportunity to utilize all remedies available under the rules of sale against the seller who has breached their obligation. Thereby, the negative consequences associated with the existence of a time gap between the conclusion of the contract and the actual transfer, during which the statutory conformity guarantee is supposedly inactive, are neutralized

About the Author

E. D. Barkaya
Russian School of Private Law
Russian Federation

Enriko D. Barkaya, Postgraduate Student

Moscow



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Barkaya E.D. The Seller’s Liability Regime for Defects in Conformity in Sale and Purchase Contracts under German and Russian Law. Actual Problems of Russian Law. 2025;20(10):171-182. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/1994-1471.2025.179.10.171-182

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ISSN 1994-1471 (Print)
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