Force majeure: Difference between revisions

Force majeure (view source)

42 bytes added , 14 June 2019

no edit summary

82,891

edits

@@ Line 8: / Line 8: @@
 That is to say, a [[force majeure]] ''delays'' the inevitable; it does not ''extinguish'' it.
 ===General concepts===
-An [[Act of God]]. In these godless 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:
+A [[force majeure is what was once called an [[Act of God]]. In these heathen 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:
 :''{{ultimate force majeure}}''