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COMMERCIAL LAWS NEGOTIABLE INSTRUMENTS, CORPORATION, INSURANCE, TRANSPORTATION, BANKING

sovereignty or to its authority, or any other territory under

its suzerainty.

ARTICLE 41. Any High Contracting Party shall be entitled

not earlier than two years after the coming into force of

this convention to call for the assembling of a new

international

conference

in

order

to

consider

any

improvements which may be made in this convention. To

this end it will communicate with the Government of the

French Republic which will take the necessary measures

to make preparations for such conference.

ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL With Reference to Article 2

The High Contracting Parties reserve to themselves the

right to declare at the time of ratification or of accession

that the first paragraph of Article 2 of this convention

shall not apply to international transportation by air

performed directly by the state, its colonies, protectorates,

or mandated territories, or by any other territory under its

sovereignty, suzerainty, or authority.

Parties to the Convention as of December 31, 1965:

Algeria

India

Argentina

Indonesia

Australia 1

Ireland

Austria

Israel

Belgium

Italy

Brazil

Ivory Coast

Bulgaria

Jamaica

Burma

Japan

Cameroon

Kenya

Canada 2

People's Democratic

Republic of Korea

Ceylon

Laos

People's Republic of China Latvia

Congo (Brazzaville)

Lebanon

Congo (Leopoldville)

Liberia

Cuba 2

Liechtenstein

Cyprus

Luxembourg

Czechoslovakia

Madagascar

Dahomey

Malawi

Denmark

Malaysia

Ethiopia

Mali

Finland

Malta

France

Mauritania

Gambia

Mexico

German Democratic

Republic

Mongolian People's

Republic

Federal Republic of

Germany 3

Morocco

Ghana

Netherlands 4

Greece

New Zealand

Guinea

Niger

Hungary

Syrian Arab Republic

Iceland

Tanzania

Nigeria

Trinidad and Tobago

Norway

Tunisia

Pakistan 2

Uganda

Philippines

Union of Soviet Socialist

Republics

Poland

United Arab Republic

Portugal

United Kingdom 5

Rumania

United States 2, 6

Rwanda

Upper Volta

Senegal

Venezuela

Sierra Leone

Vietnam

Somali Republic

Western Samoa

South Africa

Yugoslavia

Spain

Zambia

Sweden

Switzerland

Footnotes

1. Including Papua, Norfolk Islands and the trust territories

of New Guinea and Nauru.

2. With reservation.

3. Including Land Berlin.

4. Including Surinam and Curacao.

5. Including Aden and Protectorate of South Arabia,

Antigua, Ascencion Islands, Bahamas, Barbados,

Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Bermuda, British Guiana,

British Honduras British Solomon Islands, Brunei, Caicos,

Caymen Islands, Channel Islands, Dominica, Falkland

Islands, Fiji Islands, Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands,

Grenada, Hong Kong, Isle of Man, Mauritius, Montserrat,

Rhodesia, St. Christopher, Nevis, St. Helena, St. Lucia, St.

Vincent, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tonga, Turks, Virgin

Islands.

6. Notification of denunciation received November 15,

1965, effective May 15, 1966.

(Warsaw Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules

Relating to International Carriage by Air, [1929])

Code of Commerce for Maritime Law

December 1, 1888

CODE OF COMMERCE

BOOK II Special Commercial Contracts

TITLE VII Commercial Contracts for

Transportation Overland

ARTICLE 360. The shipper may, without changing the

place where the delivery is to be made, change the

consignment of the goods delivered to the carrier, and

the latter shall comply with his orders, provided that at

the time of making the change of the consignee the bill

of lading subscribed by the carrier be returned to him, if

one were issued, exchanging it for another containing the

novation of the contract.

The expenses arising from the change of consignment

shall be defrayed by the shipper.

ARTICLE 361. Merchandise shall be transported at the risk

and venture of the shipper, if the contrary was not

expressly stipulated.

Therefore, all damages and impairment suffered by the

goods during the transportation, by reason of accident,

force majeure , or by virtue of the nature or defect of the

articles, shall be for the account and risk of the shipper.

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