force majeure

contract clause regarding extraordinary occurrence beyond control which prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligations
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force majeure

Summary

force majeure is a legal term or legal concept[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (838 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • force majeure's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].
  • force majeure's GND ID is recorded as 4025355-7[4].
  • force majeure's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85143844[5].
  • force majeure's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 122419219[6].
  • force majeure's subclass of is recorded as causality[7].
  • force majeure's subclass of is recorded as legal risk[8].
  • force majeure's subclass of is recorded as contractual term[9].
  • force majeure's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 43282[10].
  • force majeure's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/034pr3[11].
  • force majeure's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 346.02[12].
  • force majeure's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 834835[13].
  • force majeure's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[14].
  • force majeure's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[15].
  • force majeure's described by source is recorded as New Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • force majeure's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000365839[17].
  • force majeure's different from is recorded as Sila wyzsza[18].
  • force majeure's Quora topic ID is recorded as Force-Majeure[19].
  • force majeure's Cultureel Woordenboek ID is recorded as wet-en-recht/overmacht[20].
  • force majeure's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779833808[21].
  • force majeure's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007541429805171[22].
  • force majeure's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 07329950-n[23].
  • force majeure's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2779833808[24].
  • force majeure's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 41377[25].
  • force majeure's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as nepreodolimaia-sila-d27b62[26].
  • force majeure's Wellcome Collection concept ID is recorded as sjpuyw42[27].

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Designation and Status

force majeure's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[3].

Why It Matters

force majeure ranks in the top 3% of legal_term_or_legal_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (838 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Nuovo soggettario. wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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