Open Access«Wrong Price Tag» in the Supermarket: «Hard Case» for the Civil Law of Germany and Russia?
Author(s) -
Sergei Viktorovich Korolev
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
rossijskij žurnal pravovyh issledovanij
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2410-7522
pISSN - 2410-4965
DOI - 10.17816/rjls18330
Subject(s) - german , safeguard , relation (database) , law , civil code , service (business) , political science , civil law (civil law) , civil service , business , commercial law , law and economics , public service , economics , history , marketing , computer science , database , archaeology
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.