IMPOSSIBILITY

Impossibility

In contract law, impossibility is an excuse for the nonperformance of duties under a contract, based on a change in circumstances, the nonoccurrence of which was an underlying assumption of the contract, that makes performance of the contract literally impossible. For such a defense to be raised, performance must not merely be difficult or unexpectedly costly for one party; there must be no way for it to actually be accomplished.

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impossibility

Noun

  1. Something that is impossible.
    Meeting the deadline is an impossibility; there is no way we can be ready in time.
  2. The quality of being impossible.
  1. Inability; helplessness.


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