Force majeure: Difference between revisions

An [[Act of God]]. These days, contracting folk are sanguine and insert dull generalities (such workmanlike prose as “an event outside a party's control which it could not reasonably have avoided and by dint of which the contract is impossible to perform”), but there was a time — a better, gentler, happier time —  in which [[force majeure]] was a lawyer’s one chance to really stretch his literary wings. The [[Jolly Contrarian]] went quite mad with it:

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