Principles of International Commercial Contracts
The Principles of International Commercial Contracts (PICC) of 2010[1] is a document drawn up by UNIDROIT intended to help harmonize international commercial contracts law. The first edition of which was published in 1994, and the second, enlarged edition of which was published in 2004. The third edition was published in 2010, which among others contains a new section on illegality.
Contents
- Preamble
- Chapter 1, General Provisions
- Chapter 2, Formation and Authority of Agents
- Chapter 3, Validity
- Chapter 4, Interpretation
- Chapter 5, Content and Third Party Rights
- Chapter 6, Performance
- Chapter 7, Non-Performance
- Chapter 8, Set-off
- Chapter 9, Assignment of rights, transfer of obligations, assignment of contracts
- Chapter 10, Limitation periods
- Chapter 11, Plurality of parties
See also
- Australian contract law
- Canadian contract law
- English contract law
- French contract law
- German contract law
- Principles of European Contract Law of 2003
- Restatement (Second) of Contracts of 1979
- UK commercial law
- Unidroit
- Uniform Commercial Code of 1952
- US contract law
Notes
References
- S. Vogenauer and J. Kleinheisterkamp, Commentary on the UNIDROIT principles of international commercial contracts (PICC) (OUP 2009)
External links
- Unidroit's page for the PICC
- Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts of 2010 ()