Frustration and force majeure / by Sir Guenter Treitel.

London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2004.

2nd ed.

25095

Impossibility of performance -- England.

Discharge of contracts -- England.

Vis major (Civil law) -- England.

Frustration.

1. Introduction

2. Development

3. Impossibility in general: destruction of subject matter

4. Other types of impossibility

5. Partial and temporary impartibility

6. Impracticability

7. Frustration of purpose

8. Illegality

9. Prospective frustration

10. Alternatives

11. Leases of land

12. Contractual provisions for supervening event

13. Foreseen and foreseeable events

14. Self-induced frustration

15. Effects of frustration

16. Nature of the doctrine.

Includes index.

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lxxxii, 673 p.