Frustration and force majeure /
Peel, Edwin,author.
The fourth edition of Frustration and Force Majeure provides a thorough examination of the principles governing the conflict between the sanctity of contract and the discharge of contractual obligations in response to supervening events. The author guides the reader through the types of supervening events which may be encountered in any commercial transaction, setting out the principles involved, together with judicial interpretations from a number of common law jurisdictions.
Previous edition 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Development -- 3. Impossibility in general: destruction of subject matter -- 4. Other types of impossibility -- 5. Partial and temporary impossibility -- 6. Impracticability -- 7. Frustration of purpose -- 8. Illegality -- 9. Prospective frustration -- 10. Alternatives -- 11. Leases of land -- 12. Contractual provisions for supervening events -- 13. Foreseen and foreseeable events -- 14. Self-induced frustrations -- 15. Effects of frustration -- 16. Nature of the doctrine.
The fourth edition of Frustration and Force Majeure provides a thorough examination of the principles governing the conflict between the sanctity of contract and the discharge of contractual obligations in response to supervening events. The author guides the reader through the types of supervening events which may be encountered in any commercial transaction, setting out the principles involved, together with judicial interpretations from a number of common law jurisdictions.
Impossibility of performance
Discharge of contracts
Vis major (Civil law)