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An impossibility of performance clause addresses situations where a party becomes unable to fulfill its contractual obligations due to circumstances beyond its reasonable control—such as death, destruction of essential assets, or legal prohibition. T
Read More →An Economic Hardship Clause allows a vendor (supplier) to request contract modification or price adjustment if unforeseen economic circumstances make performance significantly more expensive or burdensome than originally anticipated. Unlike a force m
Read More →This clause allows one or both parties to suspend or terminate a contract if new government regulations, laws, or regulatory requirements make performance illegal, impossible, or commercially impracticable. For example, if a contract requires deliver
Read More →This clause permits a SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) provider or customer to invoke force majeure when labor strikes prevent contractual performance. In SaaS agreements, performance typically means maintaining uptime, delivering services, processing da
Read More →This clause treats supply chain disruptions as force majeure events that excuse performance under a restrictive covenant agreement. Restrictive covenants typically limit what a party can do—for example, non-compete clauses, non-solicitation agreement
Read More →This clause designates cyber attacks as qualifying force majeure events that excuse a party from performing their contractual obligations in real estate transactions. A force majeure clause typically relieves a party from liability when unforeseen ci
Read More →This clause excuses a party from making payments when war, armed conflict, civil unrest, terrorism, riots, or similar violent upheaval makes payment impossible or illegal. For instance, if a country enters into war and freezes international bank tran
Read More →This clause relieves a party from liability for damages caused by natural disasters—earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, and similar acts of nature that are beyond human control. When a natural disaster prevents a party from performi
Read More →This clause excuses a party from performing their contractual obligations when government action makes performance impossible or illegal. Government actions covered typically include new laws, regulations, licensing denials, embargoes, nationalizatio
Read More →This clause specifically carves out pandemic-related events (disease outbreaks, epidemics, or pandemics) as qualifying force majeure events, often with tailored definitions and conditions. Rather than relying on general force majeure language that mi
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