Abstract
It appears from section 433 BGB (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch: the German Civil Code) that the basic idea underlying the law is that a purchaser pays for goods at the same time as the vendor gives him direct possession. Purchase for cash satisfies the needs of the vendor, who will immediately receive the full amount of money at the moment of the delivery of the goods. However, practice has rather deviated from this idea. In most cases (apart from the cash purchases of everyday life) the delivery of goods is effected in advance by the seller whereas the buyer transmits the purchase price to the seller by cheque, credit transfer or similar after the delivery of the goods. Today it is general business usage to allow a period for payment; this is done for working assets as well as for expensive and durable investment goods. If the purchaser becomes insolvent after the delivery of the goods, the vendor would lose the goods without being able to enforce his claim for the full amount of the price. In the case of the purchaser’s bankruptcy the vendor is an ordinary creditor in bankruptcy: that is, he has to content himself with a proportional payment out of the bankrupt’s estate.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Graf Lambsdorff, Handbuch des Eigentumsvorbehalts im deutschen und ausländischen Recht, Frankfurt 1974, S.8; a. A. Hübner, NJW 1980, S. 729 ff.
BGHZ 28, 16 (21).
BGHZ 20, 88 (100).
BGHZ 10, 72 ff.
BGHZ 54, 214; Staudinger-Honsell section 455 Rdnr. 30
Jauernig-Schlechtriem, BGB-Kommentar, München 1981, section 455 Nr. 2b; Graf Lamsdorff-Hübner, Eigentumsvorbehalt und AGB-Gesetz, Köln 1982, Rdnr. 19 ff.
Larenz, Lehrbuch des Schuldrechts, II Band, 1977, München, 43 II a.
Zum Ganzen Lambsdorff-Hübner, Eigentumsvorbehalt und AGB-Gesetz, Köln 1982, Rdnr, 81 ff., 96 ff., 100 ff., 121 f.
BGH NJW 1979 214.
Serick Eigentumsvorbehalt und Sicherungsubertragung, Band I, Heidelberg 1963, S. 113
Brink, Peterit, Reinecker, Scheerer in Bärmann, Recht der Kreditsicherheiten in Europäischen Ländern, Teil I, Berlin 1976, Rdnr. 286.
Mentzel/Kuhn/Uhlenbruck, Konkursordnung, München 1979,; section 1 Rdnr. 1.
BGHZ 54, 218, 219.
Mentzel/Kuhn/Uhlenbruck, section 43 Rdnr. 1.
Bärmann, Rdnr 316.
Böhle-Stamschräder/Kilger, Konkursordnung, München 1981, section 17, Nr 3 b.
BGHZ 15, 336
Graf Lambsdorff, Rdnr. 510.
Barmann, Rdnr. 317.
BGHZ 58, 257, 261.
BGHZ 30, 176 ff.
BGZ 46, 99.
Mentzel/Kuhn/Uhlenbruck, section 4 Rdnr. 1.
RGZ 115, 264.
Georg Kuhn, Der Eigentumsvorbehalt im Konkurs, WM 1972, S. 208.
RGZ 118, 209; 124, 74.
Böhle-Stamschräder/Kilger, 43 Nr. 3 b (aa).
RGZ 145. 193.
Graf Lambsdorff Rdnr. 546–549.
Graf Lambsdorff Rdnr. 558.
Kuhn, WM 1972, S. 209.
Kuhn, WM 1972, S. 209.
RGZ 147, 321.
Mentzel/Kuhn/Uhlenbruck, section 43 Rdnr. 42.
Mentzel/Kuhn/Uhlenbruck, section 43 Rdnr. 43.
BGH, WM 1977, 1353.
BGH, WM 1971, 347, 348.
Graf Lamsdorff-Hübner, Rdnr. 87 ff.
Larenz, Bd. II, section 43 II 3.
Graf Lambsdorff, Rdnr. 567.
Serick, Bd. I, S. 365.
Graf Lambsdorff Rdnr. 567.
Serick, Bd. I, S. 366
Graf Lambsdorff Rdnr. 570.
Graf Lambsdorff Rdnr. 572.
Serick, Bd. I, S. 372.
Graf Lambsdorff Rdnr. 576.
Mentzel/Kuhn/Uhlenbruck, section 44 Rdnr. 1.
Böhle-Stamschräder/Kilger, section 44 Nr. 1.
Mentzel/Kuhn/Uhlenbruck, section 44 Rdnr. 2.
Mentzel/Kuhn/Uhlenbruck, section 44 Rdnr. 17.
Editor information
Copyright information
© 1984 Association Européenne des Praticiens des Procédures Collectives
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Hübner, U. (1984). Germany: Reservation of Title. In: Cork, K., Weiss, G.A. (eds) European Insolvency Practitioners’ Handbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07157-9_9
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07157-9_9
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-0-333-36615-8
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-07157-9
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)