华沙——牛津规则英文.docx

WARSAW-OXFORD RULES 1932 PREAMBLE These Rules are intended to offer to those interested in the sale and purchase of goods on c.i.f. terms who have at present no standard form of contract or general conditions available a means of voluntarily and readily adopting in their c.i.f. contracts a set of uniform rules. In the absence of any express adoption of these Rules in the manner hereinafter appearing, they shall in no case be deemed to govern the rights and obligations of the parties to a sale of goods on c.i.f. terms. RULE 1. SCHEME OF RULES These Rules shall be known as the Warsaw-Oxford Rules, and their adoption as herein provided shall be conclusive evidence that the parties intend their contract to be a c.i.f. contract. Any of these Rules may be varied, or amended, or other terms inserted in the c.i.f. contract, but such variation, amendment or insertion may only be made by express agreement of the parties to the contract. In the absence of any such express agreement these Rules shall apply without qualification to any sale of goods involving either wholly or in part transit by sea, in connection with which they are expressly adopted by a reference to the term Warsaw-Oxford Rules, and the rights and obligations of the parties shall be construed in accordance with the provisions of these Rules. In case of a conflict between the Rules and a contract the latter shall govern. Reference to the Rules shall cover all other provisions on which the contract itself is silent. The expression usage of the particular trade as employed in these Rules means a settled custom so general in the particular trade that the parties to the contract of sale must be held to know of the existence of such a custom and to have contracted with reference thereto. RULE 2. DUTIES OF THE SELLER AS TO SHIPMENT The Seller must provide goods of the contractual description and, subject to the provisions of the next succeeding paragraph and to those of Rules 7 (III) and (IV), have t