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Contract law: an inability to carry out a contract or perform a term of the contract due to supervening circumstances beyond the partiesÂ’ control, such as an event of force majeure.

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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