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Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Anglais

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Frustration of purpose is, in a sense, the converse of impracticability. The two ideas resemble each other in that neither is concerned with cases in which performance has become impossible. Impracticability is said to arise when a supplier of goods, services or other facilities alleges that performance of his own promise has become so burdensome to him that he should no longer be bound to render it. The argument of frustration of purpose, on the other hand, is put forward by the recipient of the goods, services or facilities : it is that supervening events have so greatly reduced the value to him of the other party's performance that he should no longer be bound to accept and pay for it.  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - frustration%20of%20purpose

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From the standpoint of the intended recipient of the performance.  3, fiche 1, Anglais, - frustration%20of%20purpose

Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Français

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Du point de vue du destinataire de la prestation.  2, fiche 1, Français, - inex%C3%A9cutabilit%C3%A9%20finalitaire

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inexécutabilité finalitaire: terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  3, fiche 1, Français, - inex%C3%A9cutabilit%C3%A9%20finalitaire

Fiche 1,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 2,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The principle [of frustration] has developed from the principle that supervening factual or legal impossibility of performance, not attributable to the default of either party, discharges the contract.  2, fiche 2, Anglais, - impossibility%20of%20performance

Fiche 2,  Justifications,  Français

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impossibilité d'exécution : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  2, fiche 2, Français, - impossibilit%C3%A9%20d%27ex%C3%A9cution

Fiche 2,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 3,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The ship could have been sent in due course, but by the time it was ready and available the original purpose of the intended charter-party could not be fulfilled. Therefore, there was "practical" impossibility, or "frustration", even though there was no physical impossibility ... The commercial purpose of the original contract has been frustrated; to go on when the delaying act or event has concluded its effects would be to bind the parties by a new contract, in new and different circumstances.  3, fiche 3, Anglais, - practical%20impossibility

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The current trend in the United States is to abandon the very word "impossible" and "impossibility" and to use instead the terms "impracticable" and "impracticability". This change seems, morever, to be intended to widen the scope of the doctrine of discharge by supervening events.  4, fiche 3, Anglais, - practical%20impossibility

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From the standpoint of the performing party.  5, fiche 3, Anglais, - practical%20impossibility

Fiche 3,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[...] la résolution du contrat a pour effet de l'anéantir et de remettre les parties en l'état où elles se trouvaient antérieurement sous la seule réserve de l'impossibilité pratique [...]  2, fiche 3, Français, - impossibilit%C3%A9%20pratique

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Du point de vue du prestataire.  3, fiche 3, Français, - impossibilit%C3%A9%20pratique

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impossibilité pratique : terme normalisé par le Comité de normalisation, Promotion de l'accès à la justice dans les deux langues officielles (PAJLO).  4, fiche 3, Français, - impossibilit%C3%A9%20pratique

Fiche 3,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 4,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A contract may be frustrated by supervening illegality resulting from the war-time prohibition against trading with the enemy, in spite of the fact that the war was a foreseeable event.  1, fiche 4, Anglais, - foreseeable%20event

Fiche 4,  Justifications,  Français

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

La loi, dans la définition qu'elle donne du cas fortuit, requiert que le débiteur n'ai pas «prévu» l'événement. Au contraire, la jurisprudence, reprenant en cela les données de la doctrine classique, demande au débiteur de démontrer non seulement qu'il n'a pas effectivement prévu l'événement mais encore que celui-ci n'était pas normalement «prévisible».  3, fiche 4, Français, - %C3%A9v%C3%A9nement%20pr%C3%A9visible

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évènement : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).  2, fiche 4, Français, - %C3%A9v%C3%A9nement%20pr%C3%A9visible

Fiche 4,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 5,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The rules so far stated apply to supervening prohibition, i. e. to one imposed by a law made after the contract. If, at the time of contracting, the prohibition is already in force, the case is one of antecedent prohibition. This may make the contract void ab initio for illegality, but it will not bring about frustration.  1, fiche 5, Anglais, - antecedent%20prohibition

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Fiche 6,  Justifications,  Anglais

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A claim that a contract has been discharged may be made before there has actually been any(or any sufficiently serious) interference with performance, on the ground that supervening events have made it highly probable that there will be such interference. As a general rule, the effect of those events must then be determined by reference to the time when they occur.  1, fiche 6, Anglais, - prospective%20frustration

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Fiche 7,  Justifications,  Anglais

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Supervening illegality, for example, a statute or proclamation making trading with an enemy in time of war illegal, renders the act or contract illegal, but not impossible to perform.  2, fiche 7, Anglais, - supervening%20illegality

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It is now customary to treat supervening illegality as an instance of frustration, in that it is similar to frustration by a subsequent change in the law.  3, fiche 7, Anglais, - supervening%20illegality

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Fiche 8,  Justifications,  Anglais

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... there was no authority that a change in the law could constitute a supervening event in ancillary relief cases...  2, fiche 8, Anglais, - supervening%20event

Fiche 8,  Justifications,  Français

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évènement : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).  2, fiche 8, Français, - %C3%A9v%C3%A9nement%20survenant

Fiche 8,  Justifications,  Espagnol

Fiche 9,  Justifications,  Anglais

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A remote condition or conduct which furnishes only the occasion for someone else's supervening negligence is not a proximate cause of the result of the subsequent negligence...  2, fiche 9, Anglais, - supervening%20negligence

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Fiche 10,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The rules so far stated apply to supervening prohibition, i. e. to one imposed by a law made after the contract. If, at the time of contracting, the prohibition is already in force, the case is one of antecedent prohibition. This may make the contract void ab initio for illegality, but it will not bring about frustration.  1, fiche 10, Anglais, - supervening%20prohibition

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Fiche 11,  Justifications,  Anglais

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 OBS

The doctrine of frustration originated in cases where performance was said to have become "impossible. "That, in itself, is something of a relative term. What is "impossible" depends partly on the current state of technology, and partly on the amount of trouble and expense to which one is prepared to go to achieve it... the current trend in the United States is to abandon the very words "impossible" and "impossibility" and to use instead the terms "impracticable" and "impracticability. "This change seems, moreover, to be intended to widen the scope of the doctrine of discharge by supervening events.  1, fiche 11, Anglais, - impracticable%20performance

Fiche 11,  Justifications,  Français

Fiche 11,  Justifications,  Espagnol