«Wrong Price Tag» in the Supermarket: «Hard Case» for the Civil Law of Germany and Russia?

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By analyzing analogous private-law cases, which highlight basic features of self-service shopping in supermarkets, the author compares the German and the Russian versions of sale contracts. Especially the relation between the offer and the acceptance is focused upon. Besides invitatio ad offerendum and the so called (Russian) public contract are analyzed. The author concludes that notwithstanding the clumsiness of the German version of sale contract it is better tailored than the analogous Russian version to safeguard the rule of law and the equality principle.

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S V Korolev

The State and Law Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Email: sko.05@mail.ru

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