Legal Relief for Performance Obstacles of House Leasing Contract Caused by COVID-19

Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v2i4.218

Ran Luo

Law School of Beijing Normal University

Abstract

COVID-19 and its control measures have caused obstacles to the performance of many house-leasing contracts. To give reasonable relief to contracts’ Parties involved, the legal nature of COVID-19 and its control measures must be precisely defined. This paper argues that the early COVID-19 and its control measures are the force majeure, and the legal nature of COVID-19 and its control measures under the normal epidemic preventing and controlling mechanism should be analyzed in light of the specific situation. We should accurately grasp the meaning of impossibility of performance, frustration of purpose and impracticability, appropriately take the legal relief, balance the interests of both Parties, and promote social and economic recovery finally.

Keywords

force majeure; principle of changed circumstances; impossibility of performance; frustration of purpose; impracticability

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