Impossibility of Performance in UK Law

  • REVIEWS
    • No. 5-3‐4, July 1942
    • The Modern Law Review
    Book reviewed in this article: POWER POLITICS. By Georg Schwarzenberger. JUVENILE DELINQUENTS GROWN UP. By Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck. THE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF JOHN MARSHALL. A Study of First Princ...
    ...... F. A. M. IMPOSSIBILITY OF PERFORJWANCE. By R. G. MCELROY, edited by GLANVILLE ... an exposition of the law of impossibility of performance, though his book is more than adequate as such, as to analyse ......
  • REVIEWS
    • No. 3-2, October 1939
    • The Modern Law Review
    Book reviewed in this article: Workmen's COMPENSATION. By Sir Arnold Wilson, M.P., and Professor Hermann Levy. Vol. I: Social and Political Development. The British Constitution. By H. R. G. Greave...
    ...... attempt to analyse the law relating to supervening impossibility of performance in contract. The author gives a useful ......
  • REVIEWS
    • No. 9-2, July 1946
    • The Modern Law Review
    Book reviewed in this article: Why Crime? Some Causes and Remedies from the Psychological Standpoint. By Claud Mullins. (London: Methuen. 1946. ix, 180 pp. 6s. net.) Salmond's Law of Torts. Tenth e...
    ...... A. FARNSWORTH. IMPOSSIBILITY OF PERFORMANCE IN CONTRACT. By R. GOTTS- CHALK. (London: ......
  • NOTES OF CASES
    • No. 2-3, December 1938
    • The Modern Law Review
    ...... OF CASE§ Frustration HE doctine of supervening impossibility of performance has developed by the gradual establishment of ......
  • NOTES OF CASES
    • No. 5-2, November 1941
    • The Modern Law Review
    ...... to review certain aspects of the law relating to impossibility of performance, failure of consideration, . I36 MODERN LAW ......
  • The Coronation Cases—I
    • No. 4-4, April 1941
    • The Modern Law Review
    ...... Cases are a landmark in the history of impossibility of performance of contract, and are still the T most ......
  • FRUSTRATION OF CONTRACT IN COMPARATIVE LAW AND IN THE NEW GREEK CIVIL CODE OF 1946 (Article 388)
    • No. 11-1, January 1948
    • The Modern Law Review
    ...... be rcleascd from his obligation in case of impossibility of execution of tlie contract owing to a fact which ... towards the broadening of the concep tion of non-performance of the contract. Indeed, not only does supervening casual ......
  • FRUSTRATED CONTRACTS AND LEGAL FICTIONS
    • No. 46-1, January 1983
    • The Modern Law Review
    “Someone says to me: ‘Show the children a game.’ I teach them gaming with dice, and the other says, ‘I didn't mean that sort of game.’ Must the exclusion of the game with dice have come before his ...
    ...... technique of implying terms into contracts to excuse performance has been attacked and defended for over a century in the common ... 173; Wade, “The Principle of Impossibility in Contract ” (1940) 56 L.Q.R. 519; McElroy and Williams, ......
  • REVIEWS
    • No. 4-3, January 1941
    • The Modern Law Review
    Book reviewed in this article: THE LAW IN QUEST OF ITSELF. By Lon L. Fuller, Professor of Law, Duke University, Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School. 1940. EFFECT OF WAR ON CONTRACTS. By George J...
    ...... more woeful ignorance, than those of illegality and impossibility of performance, and this despite the fact that of recent ......
  • The Wages Councils Bill
    • No. 8-1‐2, March 1945
    • The Modern Law Review
    ...... to who is to bear the risk of the worker’s “impossibility of performance,” whether such impossibility be caused by ......
  • See all results

VLEX uses login cookies to provide you with a better browsing experience. If you click on 'Accept' or continue browsing this site we consider that you accept our cookie policy. ACCEPT