IMPOSSIBILITY-OF-PERFORMANCE DOCTRINE

By SovConn | June 23, 2013

impossibility-of-performance doctrine.The principle that a party may be released from a contract on the ground that uncontrollable circumstances have rendered performance impossible. Cf. FRUSTRATION(2); IMPRACTICABILITY. [Cases: Contracts 309(1). C.J.S. Contracts §§ 520–522, 524.]

[Blacks Law 8th]

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