commercial frustration

commercial frustration
Excuse of party from performance if contract depends on existence of given person or thing and such person or thing perishes, and if contract is rendered impossible by act of God, the law, or other party. Wood v. Bartolino, 48 N.M. 175, 146 P.2d 883, 885, 890.
In theory it amounts to no more than a condition or term of a contract which the law implies to take the place of a covenant that it is assumed would have been inserted by the parties had the contingency which arose occurred to them at the time they made the contract. Lloyd v. Murphy, Cal.App., 142 P.2d 939, 942, 943.
And doctrine is predicated upon premise of giving relief in a situation where parties could not reasonably protect themselves by terms of a contract against happening of subsequent events. Berline v. Waldschmidt, 159 Kan. 585, 156 P.2d 865, 867.
Hence doctrine has no application where events were reasonably foreseeable and controllable by the parties. U.C.C. No. 2-613.
See commercial impracticability

Black's law dictionary. . 1990.

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