Advance payment obligation and the defendant’s termination and avoidance rights

41 C 11233/05Tribunal de Primeira Instância16 de mai. de 2007Direito civil

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Resumo Omnilex

In this interlocutory notice, the Düsseldorf Local Court revised its previously expressed view and advised the parties that the defendant could not invoke a termination right. The contract validly required the defendant to pay in advance, and it had made no payments. Accordingly, the plaintiff was not yet obliged to perform, so the defendant could not complain that the plaintiff’s performance was defective. The court also advised that the requirements for avoidance under § 123 BGB had not yet been adequately pleaded and proven. Both parties were given two weeks to submit comments, and a further oral hearing was scheduled.

Sumário Omnilex

A party bound by an effective contractual advance-payment obligation cannot rely on defective performance by the counterparty where the advance payment has not been made and the counterparty’s duty to perform has therefore not yet arisen. In the absence of an obligation to perform, alleged defects in that performance cannot support the other party’s contractual termination position. A declaration of avoidance under § 123 BGB requires the relevant factual prerequisites to be sufficiently pleaded and proven; an unsupported pre-litigation declaration does not establish those prerequisites.

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Amtsgericht Düsseldorf — 41 C 11233/05 — Beschluss

Entscheidungsdatum: 2007-05-16

Aktenzeichen: 41 C 11233/05

ECLI: ECLI:DE:AGD:2007:0516.41C11233.05.00

Dokumenttyp: Beschluss

Spruchkörper: Richterin

Tenor

werden die Parteien auf Folgendes hingewiesen:

Entgegen der bisher durch das erkennende Gericht geäußerten Rechtsauffassung, kann die Beklagte sich nicht auf ein Kündigungsrecht berufen. Diese beruht auf dem Wesen der Vorleistungspflicht. Die Beklagte ist gemäß dem zwischen den Parteien des Rechtsstreits geschlossenen Vertrages vorleistungspflichtig; die die Vorleistungspflicht begründende Klausel ist wirksam. Da die Klägerin aufgrund der Vorleistungspflicht der Beklagten, die keine Zahlungen an die Klägerin geleistet hat, noch nicht zur Erbringung ihrer Leistung verpflichtet war, kann die Beklagte sich nicht darauf berufen, dass die Klägerin ihre Leistungen mangelhaft erbracht habe. Sie war schließlich zu keiner Leistung verpflichtet.

Die Voraussetzungen einer Anfechtung nach § 123 BGB, wie sie vorprozessual ausgesprochen worden ist, sind bislang nicht schlüssig dargetan und unter Beweis gestellt.

Frist zur Stellungnahme für beide Seiten: 2 Wochen

Termin zur Fortsetzung der mündlichen Verhandlung wird bestimmt auf

Freitag, XX.XX.XXXX, 09:20 Uhr,

X. Etage, Sitzungssaal X, Mühlenstraße 34, 40213 Düsseldorf.

Palavras-chave

advance paymentcontract terminationdefective performanceavoidanceburden of proof

Questões jurídicas principais extraídas pela Omnilex

Whether the defendant may terminate the contract or rely on alleged defective performance by the plaintiff despite the defendant’s advance-payment obligation.

The defendant cannot rely on a termination right or alleged defects in the plaintiff’s performance because the plaintiff was not yet obliged to perform before the defendant made the required advance payment.

The contractual clause establishing the defendant’s advance-payment obligation is effective. Since the defendant made no payment, the plaintiff was not obliged to perform.

Whether the defendant has sufficiently established the requirements for avoidance under § 123 BGB.

The requirements for avoidance have not yet been adequately pleaded and supported by evidence.

The court found the pre-litigation avoidance declaration insufficiently substantiated and proven on the record then before it.

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