Tag: frustration-of-purpose

  • Legal Concepts in the COVID-19 Era: When Plans Go Awry

    – Commercial tenants seeking relief from paying rent due to pandemic-related downturns in business have turned to the equitable doctrines of frustration of purpose and impossibility. – The impossibility doctrine examines if the action to be performed in a contract was possible under the circumstances, while the frustration of purpose doctrine analyzes if the parties…