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force majeure

contract clause regarding extraordinary occurrence beyond control which prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligations
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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 (6,628 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: causality[3], legal risk[4], contractual term[5]
  • Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[6], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[7], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[8]
  • Different from: Sila wyzsza[9]

Why It Matters

force majeure has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_force-majeure_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{force majeure}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/force-majeure}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-11}}
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → vis-major-civil-law
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: vis-major-civil-law, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289967228|vis major civil law (#289967228)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915"
  2. 13w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → pJnNW
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/40849|batch #40849]]: ZGBK ID"
  3. 18w ago · Horcrux · 2026-06-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Google knowledge graph id → /g/120wl411
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q3663825 */"
  4. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → legal term or legal concept
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 2261727
    Instance of → —
    Different from → Sila wyzsza
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ National library of israel j9u id: 987007541429805171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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