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13-840. Impossibility or impracticability of performance.

When the performance of a contract obligation becomes impossible or unreasonably burdensome because of circumstances or events beyond the __________________ (promisor=s) control which are substantially and materially different from what both __________________ (plaintiff) and __________________ (defendant) reasonably anticipated would exist, then the __________________ (promisor) is excused from performing that contractual obligation.

[Adopted, effective November 1, 1991.]

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