The doctrine of frustration
Lord Radcliffe stated in Davis Contractors v Fareham UDC [1956] AC 696
‘Frustration occurs wherever the law recognises that without default of either party a contractual obligation has become incapable of being performed because the circumstances in which performance is called for would render it a thing radically different from that which was undertaken by the contract.
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