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Contractual Breach and Force Majeure in Nationalization Case

Numéro de cause JURITEXT000006955680

Autorité / Tribunal Cour de cassation

Juridiction

France (FR)

Date de la décision 1961-01-20

Issue du litige annulled

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Synthèse Legislator

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A contractual obligation for delivery, due on a specified date, was breached when the obligated party failed to perform by that date; the court of first instance, finding the delay to be excusable due to a *force majeure* event—the nationalization of the contracted good—rejected the claim for rescission, but the higher court quashed this decision because a generalized event like nationalization does not automatically absolve a contracting party unless the specific, unforeseen, and external nature of the event demonstrably prevented performance, and the lower court failed to establish that the nationalization made performance absolutely impossible.

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Contractual Breach and Force Majeure in Nationalization Case: A contractual obligation for delivery, due on a specified date, was breached when the obligated party failed to perform by that date; the court of first instance, finding the delay to be excusable due to a *force majeure* event—the nationalization of the contracted good—rejected the claim for rescission, but the higher court quashed this decision because a generalized event like nationalization does not automatically absolve a contracting party unless the specific, unforeseen, and external nature of the event demonstrably prevented performance, and the lower court failed to establish that the nationalization made performance absolutely impossible.