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Impracticability of Performance

Learn about rules excusing the seller’s performance in rare instances when some unforeseeable contingency renders the seller’s performance extremely and unreasonably difficult, expensive, or harmful.

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Under Article 2, a party may be totally or partially excused from performance. If a party’s performance is excused, any resulting non-performance or delay won’t result in a breach of contract.

In this lesson, we’ll discuss excuse due to impracticability of performance.

I. Section 2-615

Article 2 excuses a seller’s nondelivery or late delivery if the seller’s performance has been made impracticable by either the occurrence of a contingency or good-faith compliance with a governmental regulation.

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