Template:Ultimate force majeure
No party will be liable for losses arising from its non-performance due to:
- Supernature & the occult: Acts of God (monotheistic or polytheistic, including actions of prophets, seers, spirits, shamen, demigods and those claiming supernatural powers as a result of illegitimate divine involvement in their procreation including in each case their earthly or heavenly instruments of torment, temptation and/or confusion whether real, virtual, animate, inanimate, automatic, alive, dead, undead or having any other intermediate or indeterminate state of expiry, which such instruments shall include, and be deemed to include, any and all angels, devils, dæmons, cherubim, seraphim, incubi, succubi, chimæræ, banshees, basilisks, boggarts, bunyips, færies, phoenices, sprites, sphinxes, harpies, nymphs (aqueous or otherwise), dryads, elves, imps, ogres, genies, gargoyles, gnomes, gremlins, golems, gorgons, goblins, hobgoblins, titans, tricksters, ferrymen, trolls (whether mythical or internet-based), satyrs, fauns, centaurs, sirens, mermaids, mermen, griffins, dragons of any type, kind or variety, minotaurs, unicorns, leprechauns, wild men, first men, last men, green men or bogey-men (in each case regardless of age, gender or decrepitude), valkyries, vampires, werewolves, hellhounds, will ’o’ the wisps, wraiths, witches, warlocks, wizards, white-walkers, bigfeet, yeti, or snowmen, howsoever abominable);
- Metereology: any hurricane, cyclone, tempest, storm, shower, intermittent drizzle or other meteorological phenomenon; the operation or failure to operate when expected of any jet stream, trade wind, doldrum, el Niño, la Niña, Artic Dipole, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation or other recognised wind or weather pattern;
- Hydration: any deluge, flood, leak, dousing, unreasonable dampness or other unexpected aqueous invasion (whether or not having, or intended by supernatural power to have, remedial or punitive effect); any peril, danger, accident or vicissitude occurring on, in, under, above or courtesy of any ocean, sea, inlet, fjord, estuary, inland lake, lagoon, lido, pond, puddle, river, stream, brook, concourse, storm-water drain, firth, burn, loch, lochán, or other body of water having menacing aspect (however Roman, Saxon, Norse, Goth, Visigoth, Gallic Celtic or Iberian in etymological nature and whether fresh, brackish or saline) including for the avoidance of the doubt the unanticipated contents therein and thereof, whether in existence, plausibly hypothesised, suspected or plainly the product of public delusion or paranoid fantasy and whether by nature a reptile, lizard, giant squid, kraken, leviathan, mollusc, unusually shaped duck or other appalling creature of the deep howsoever described or such flotsam, jetsam, fly-tipped car tyres or other unidentified debris which may for the time being be reasonably mistaken for one or more of the foregoing;
- Lack of hydration: Any drought, dry spell, aridity, desiccation, chafing or analogous meteorological circumstance provided that it shall have occasioned a hosepipe restriction, mandatory measure for the conservation of water or animated debate on a nationally-recognised medium for the public discussion of current affairs;
- Astronomy: any eclipse (full or partial), nova, solar flare, electromagnetic pulse, comet, satellite, meteorite, space-borne magnetic anomaly, unidentified flying object, heat ray or other contraption of extra-terrestrial origin having nefarious effect, whether or not recognisably intelligent; any pronounced effect of gravity, any black hole, discontinuity, singularity, warping of space-time or other real or apparent violation of the settled laws of physics, or event requiring their revision or alteration thereto, and whether or not arising as a the intended effect of a successful experiment with a particle beam accelerator, collider, agitator or otherwise;
- Seismology and natural disaster: any earthquake, volcano, avalanche, blizzard, snowdrift, snowfall (where not anticipated) lack of snowfall (where anticipated) or material interruption to any seasonal recreational activity; any fire, conflagration, explosion, detonation, rust, reaction or other chemical process analogous to undesired oxidisation;
- War: any war (hot or cold), battle (on, above or under the land or sea or occurring otherwise in any frame of reference, geometry or part of the space-time continuum howsoever described, and regardless of howsoever far, far away), siege, invasion, entrenchment, withdrawal, strategic retreat, tactical retreat, surrender, outright capitulation, evacuation (whether or not assisted by civilians) or other flight from conflict;
- Civil unrest: any uprising, riot, looting, organised disobedience or other civil commotion (not including ironic “flash-mob” performances of songs from The Sound of Music and equivalent productions, however tiresome or poorly organised);
- Treason: any sedition, treason, espionage or political agitation or action of the Queen’s enemies however honourable, well-meant or nefarious and whether or not reasonably capable of anticipation at the time of contract; #Fauna: the unwanted ministrations of any animal, whether naturally domesticated (mansuetae naturae) or wild (ferae naturae), the infestation of any insect, bird, fish, microbe or algal organism;
- Personal injury by accident: any injury, illness or childhood infection encountered during pretend military fitness training, on an assault course or in a plastic ball pool, Jungle Jim™, Clown Town™ or other children’s play area however dismal,
- Illness, physical or psychiatric: any significant case of sneezing, hiccups, dissentry, flatulence or gout; any endemic epidemic, pandemic or pingdemic; any obsessive compulsive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, attention deficit d, midlife crisis, paranoia, pedantry, frustration, irritation, cynicism or general scepticism about the state of the modern world and be assured God does know that’s understandable the way things are presently going, any poor judgment with any member of any sex (whether or not opposite and notwithstanding any past, present of future transition between) and
- Miscellaneous: any other circumstances beyond its reasonable control which it could not reasonably have avoided
and which prevents its reasonable performance of its obligations hereunder.