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• Title:Frustration and force majeure / by Edwin Peel.
  
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• Author/Creator:Peel, Edwin, author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Thomson Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 2022.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD1596 .T74 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Impossibility of performance--Great Britain.
  Discharge of contracts--Great Britain.
  Vis major (Civil law)--Great Britain.
  
• Edition:4th edition.
  
• Description:lxvii, 632 pages : color portrait ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Contract law library.
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Previous edition 2014.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780414098558 (hardcover)
  0414098552 (hardcover)
  
• Contents: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.