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Nov 7, 2013 · Fundamental Breach & Repudiatory Breach. In the decision, Macleod J. defines fundamental breach as “a breach [that] deprives the innocent party of the substantial benefit of the contract, or goes to the root of the contract” (para. 36). Technically, that is accurate. If a breach is so “fundamental”, that the innocent party is deprived ...
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A fundamental breach of contract is generally known to occur when a previously agreed upon contract is canceled entirely, due to the other party’s actions (or, inactions, in some cases). While with most breaches of contract, the early termination could be considered a breach of contract, that is not the case with a fundamental breach and ...
The test is that set out for repudiatory breach, above. The concept of fundamental breach as a free standing legal concept no longer has any legal force [26] but is now simply another possible term of a contract that needs to be construed like any other term of a contract. A fundamental breach is usually read as a reference to a repudiatory ...
- Is the breach serious enough to justify terminating the contract? It is not always obvious whether a breach is repudiatory, and therefore serious enough to end the contract.
- Should you provide the other party with an opportunity to remedy the breach? The contract may specify that the party in breach is to be given the chance to remedy the situation.
- Does the contract contain a ‘no waiver’ clause? Some contracts contain a ‘no waiver’ clause, intended to prevent accidental waiver of a party’s rights.
- Should the injured party terminate the contract and do they have the right to do so? Where there is a repudiatory breach of contract, a decision needs to be taken as to whether or not it is preferable to terminate the contract.
- Introduction
- Fundamental Breach Under The CISG
- Fundamental Breach vs Perfect Tender
- CISG: Disadvantages
- CISG Advantages
- The UCC
- Conclusion
Fundamental breach of a contract
The right to rescind a contract for breach depends on the gravity of the breach.[i] A party is entitled to rescind a contract where the breach is material and wilful, or vital. Similarly, a party to a contract is entitled to rescind where the other party has made a substantial breach, or a breach so substantial as to defeat the object of the contract, or a substantial and fundamental breach, so as to defeat the purpose or object of the contract.[ii] It is sometimes known as a Repudiatory Brea...
The CISG
The origin of the 1980 Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods, of April 11, 1980 (hereinafter, the CISG) must be sought in the exponential growth of international trade in the twentieth century[vi], which showed that the various national legal systems needed to be adapted to enable them to resolve the particular problems arisen from the volume of international transactions, including the need to harmonize the various remedies of the parties in case of breach. According to Articl...
It has to be taken into account that the CISG synthesizes different traditions of Common Law and Civil Law. This predominance has become apparent, among others, in a favourable orientation toward maintaining the contract and the resulting restrictive interpretation of “breach” to the “fundamental breach”.[vii] According to the Article 25 of the CIS...
Under the CISG, the options available to a buyer, upon the tender of goods, do not include such terms as rejection, acceptance or revocation like the UCC. Under the CISG, if a buyer wishes to reject tendered goods, she must avoid the contract.[xvi] To accept the goods, he simply does not avoid the contract. With that being said, where a seller make...
A. Legal uncertainty and unpredictability
The remedy of termination (avoidance) is considered to be the last resort in [the CISG‘s] scheme of remedies which include other less drastic remedies such as price reduction and the award of damages. As a general rule, the buyer is not allowed to terminate the contract unless the breach is fundamental. The strongest argument against the application of the CISG, especially with respect to non-conforming goods and fundamental breach, is its lack of legal certainty and predictability. The CISG...
B. Structure and plain language
The structure and plain language of Article 25 leaves one grasping for air in its interpretation. As scholars have noted, the attempt of the CISG drafters to reconcile the dichotomy between common and civil law created some problems as to the drafting technique of the Convention, of which Article 25 is an example.[xlvii]Looking at the structure of Article 25, readers will quickly find themselves in a provision containing different conditions, exceptions and affirmative statements, all within...
The CISG actively favours the performance of the contract as far as possible, and thus limits avoidance to exceptional cases of “fundamental breach”.[liii] It attempts to preserve the parties’ commitments and . . . favour the performance of their agreement and completion of the bargain, thus relying on a general principle of favor contractus.[liv] ...
Disadvantages
The biggest disadvantage of the UCC‘s perfect tender rule is that it subjects the seller to the will of the buyer regarding any non-conforming tender. This, of course, is qualified by the obligation of good faith on the part of the buyer. Yet, any non-conformity of the goods, before acceptance, will permit the buyer to reject the goods tendered.[lvii]This is quite unlike the CISG rule which requires the much more stringent standard of fundamental breach before a buyer may avoid the contract....
Advantages
While some may view the strictness of the perfect tender rule as a detriment, it is really its greatest advantage. This strictness provides the legal certainty and predictability that the CISG‘s fundamental breach rule lacks. Now, to reject goods (or avoid the contract in CISG terms), a buyer must simply make a good faith showing that the goods tendered do not conform to the contract entered into; there is no need to get into all the ambiguity which accompanies a fundamental breach analysis....
The CISG‘s fundamental breach rule and the UCC‘s perfect tender rule are similar, yet different in many respects. Both doctrines deal with similar situations and will ultimately get a buyer to the same end result. That being said, the prerequisites which must be fulfilled before a buyer may avoid a contract under the CISG are very different from th...
Jan 18, 2023 · A fundamental breach. Also known as a repudiatory breach, a fundamental breach of contract is where the severity of the breach is such that the contract can be lawfully terminated. This essentially refers to a breach that goes to the very root of the contract, depriving the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit of that agreement.
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A repudiatory breach is a breach of a contract which is so serious that it goes to the core of the contract and deprives the innocent party of its benefit. It entitles the innocent party to either: - waive the breach entirely and accept performance of the contract (which would result in the loss of the right to claim damages by the innocent party).
