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Impossibility And Frustration, Jennifer Nadler
Force Majeure, Vis Major, Impossibility, And Impracticability Under Ohio Law Before And After Covid-19, Laura Gates
Force Majeure, Vis Major, Impossibility, And Impracticability Under Ohio Law Before And After Covid-19, Laura Gates
University of Cincinnati Law Review
No abstract provided.
Contracts And Covid-19, Andrew A. Schwartz
Contracts-Frustration Of Purpose, T. Ward Chapman S.Ed.
Contracts-Frustration Of Purpose, T. Ward Chapman S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
The purpose of this comment is to discuss the doctrine in terms of its treatment by American courts. Attention will be given to the limitations which the courts have placed upon the doctrine, the degree to which they accept the doctrine thus limited, the rationales urged for the doctrine's acceptance or rejection, and the forms in which relief is given in frustration situations.
Impossibility Of Performance Amounting To A Total Failure Of Consideration Due To Governmental Action - Montauk Corporation V. Seeds, John D. Alexander Jr.
Impossibility Of Performance Amounting To A Total Failure Of Consideration Due To Governmental Action - Montauk Corporation V. Seeds, John D. Alexander Jr.
Maryland Law Review
No abstract provided.
Contracts-Doctrine Of "Commercial Frustration" As Applied To Leases Of Real Property, Margaret Groefsema S. Ed.
Contracts-Doctrine Of "Commercial Frustration" As Applied To Leases Of Real Property, Margaret Groefsema S. Ed.
Michigan Law Review
A mushroom crop of litigation has sprung up as a result of wartime governmental restrictions on production and consumption of civilian goods, particularly with respect to regulations of the sale of gasoline, tires, automobiles, and automobile accessories. Numerous problems have confronted the courts involving leases of property for the purpose of selling or servicing motor vehicles, where the lessee has sought to be released from his covenant to pay rent by invoking the so-called doctrine of "commercial frustration."
Development Of The Doctrine Of Impossibility Of Performance, William Herbert Page
Development Of The Doctrine Of Impossibility Of Performance, William Herbert Page
Michigan Law Review
In common with other systems of law, Anglo-American law has grown in part by the use of analogies; and in part, by receptions from other systems of law.
Subsequent Impossibility As Affecting Contractual Obligations, Ralph W. Aigler
Subsequent Impossibility As Affecting Contractual Obligations, Ralph W. Aigler
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Where the law creates a duty or charge and the party is disabled to perform it without any default in him, and hath no remedy over, there the law will excuse him. * * * But where the party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident by inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract. Paradine v. Jane, Aleyn, 26, a case not really involving a question of impossibility. Most discussions of the effect of subsequent impossibility of performance …
Implied Condition Involving Impossibility Of Performance, Edson R. Sunderland
Implied Condition Involving Impossibility Of Performance, Edson R. Sunderland
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Early in 1914 the defendants contracted to sell to the plaintiffs a quantity of Finland birch timber. The practice was to send the timber direct by sea from Finnish ports. Before any timber was delivered the war broke out and the presence of German warships in the Baltic made the direct shipment by water impossible. The contract contained no war, force majeure or suspension provision. Held, that the contract was not dissolved, and the defendants were liable for damages for non-delivery of the timber. Blackburn Robbin Co., Lim. v. Allen & Sons, Lim. (1918) 87 L. J. K. B. 1085. …