Week 6 Contract remedies

Question 1

absolute impossibility

Answer 1

1. objective impossibility
2. subjective impossibility
3. already be achieved
4. times has passed

Question 2

relative impossibility

Answer 2

1. practical impossibility
2. moral impossibility
3. legal impossibility

Question 3

personal services

Answer 3

individuals cannot be forced to perform

Question 4

unforeseen circumstances

Answer 4

1. change of circumstances
2. unforeseeable
3. make the performance excessively onerous

Question 5

Common law

Answer 5

Damages are primary

Specific performance as secondary remedy –> usually required with specific goods

Question 6

No special performance Common Law

Answer 6

• Generic good

- personal services

Question 7

Frustration

Answer 7

supervening event must radically or fundamentally change the nature of the performance

• impossibility
• unforeseen circumstances