Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-1991
Abstract
Professor Yates has covered in considerable detail the major problem areas in the use of force majeure clauses. His work is admirable in its technical details as well as in its use for the practitioner. I wish to add but a few brief comments about 2 chronic difficulties with the enforcement of force majeure clauses. To some extent these difficulties are common to all cases that involve excuse by way of frustration, impossibility, or commercial impracticability. The first has to do with foreseeability and the second has to do with post-excuse remedies. It has become a truism that a force majeure clause provides relief from difficulties caused by a fortuitous event. Some courts tend to limit the application of a force majeure clause to those events which are completely unexpected.
Discipline
Commercial Law | Contracts
Publication
Journal of Contract Law
Volume
3
Issue
3
First Page
214
Last Page
217
ISSN
1030-7230
Publisher
Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam.
Citation
HUNTER, Howard.
Commentary on Pitfalls of Force Majeure Clauses. (1991). Journal of Contract Law. 3, (3), 214-217.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2225
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