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frustration 1 a : the act of frustrating b : the state or an instance of being frustrated c : something that frustrates 2 : a common-law doctrine of contract law: parties to a contract may be excused from performance even though performance is still possible if the reason for making the contract is partially or completely frustrated by a fortuitous event or by circumstances which are not the fault of either party called also frustration of purpose frustration of the venture compare cause, force majeure clause, impossibility, impracticability NOTE: In order for frustration to be used as a successful defense to a breach of contract claim, the reason for making the contract must have been contemplated or recognized by both the contracting parties even though it was not expressed in the contract. ...
frustrate
frustrate frus·trat·ed frus·trat·ing : to make invalid or ineffectual : defeat [the remedial purposes of the Workers' Compensation Act should not be frustrated by rigid technical standards "Palmer v. Bath Iron Works Corp., 559 A.2d 340 (1989)"] ...
commercial frustration
commercial frustration : frustration ...
Frustration
The act of frustrating disappointment defeat as the frustration of ones designs...
Frustration
Frustration. The unforeseen determination or pre-vention of a contract by reason of the destruction of the subject-matter or other common ground forming the basis of the agreement. See IMPOSSIBILITY.The prevention or hindering of attainment of a goal, such as contractual performance Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 679...
Impossibility
Impossibility. If a man contract to do a thing which is absolutely impossible by its nature, such contract will not bind him--lex non cogit ad impossibilia, e.g., where the subject-matter has perished before date of contract, or never existed [see (English) Sale of Goods Act, 1893, s. 6; and Conturier v. Hastie, (1852) 8 Ex 43 & HLC 673]; but where the contract operating as a transfer of real property, e.g., as a demise, is to do a thing which is possible in itself, but which becomes impossible, he will be liable for the breach; thus, where a lessee covenants to repair and to leave in repair the demised premises he is not discharged from his liability because they happen to be destroyed [see Bullock v. Dommitt, (1796) 6 TR 650]; or requisitioned by the military, Whitehall Court Ltd. v. Etlinger, (1920) 1 KB 680.The non-performance of a contract which arises from an act of the law having rendered performance impossible is excused, see Baily v. De Crespigny, (1869) LR 4 QB 180; Re Shipto...
Bilk
To frustrate or disappoint to deceive or defraud by nonfulfillment of engagement to leave in the lurch to give the slip to as to bilk a creditor...
Balkingly
In a manner to balk or frustrate...
Dispurpose
To dissuade to frustrate as to dispurpose plots...
Counterplot
To oppose as another plot by plotting to attempt to frustrate as a stratagem by stratagem...
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