Frustration

  • 71frustration of a contract — situation in which external causes prevent the execution of a contract …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 72frustration of contract — The termination of a contract as a result of an unforeseen event that makes its performance impossible or illegal. A contract to sell an aircraft could be frustrated if it crashed before the contract was due to be implemented. Similarly an export …

    Accounting dictionary

  • 73frustration of contract — The termination of a contract as a result of an unforeseen event that makes its performance impossible or illegal. A contract to sell an aircraft could be frustrated if it crashed before the contract was due to be implemented. Similarly an export …

    Big dictionary of business and management

  • 74frustration foul — /frusˈtreɪʃən faʊl/ (say froohs trayshuhn fowl) noun Sport a foul committed by a player for such reasons as unhappiness with his or her performance or unhappiness with the rulings of the game s officials …

  • 75frustration of contract — This doctrine provides, generally, that where existence of a specific thing is, either by terms of contract or in contemplation of parties, necessary for performance of a promise in the contract, duty to perform promise is discharged if thing is… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 76frustration of purpose doctrine — A court created doctrine under which a party to a contract will be relieved of his or her duty to perform when the objective purpose for performance no longer exists (due to reasons beyond that party s control). This doctrine excuses a promisor… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 77frustration of contract — This doctrine provides, generally, that where existence of a specific thing is, either by terms of contract or in contemplation of parties, necessary for performance of a promise in the contract, duty to perform promise is discharged if thing is… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 78frustration of purpose doctrine — A court created doctrine under which a party to a contract will be relieved of his or her duty to perform when the objective purpose for performance no longer exists (due to reasons beyond that party s control). This doctrine excuses a promisor… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 79frustration of ancestral or testamentary intention — The violation by heir, devisee, or legatee of a promise to the testator to hold an inheritance, device, or legacy, for another or to give it to another, upon which the testator relied in the making or changing of his will in order to favor such… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 80frustration of conversion — See reconversion …

    Ballentine's law dictionary