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force majeure definition - legal

n

French

Greater force; a natural or human-induced disaster that causes a contract to fail of performance.

Webster's New World Law Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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