
Originally Posted by
Geetarman
I had a customer last week, who had a rant at me because he claimed that I had guaranteed to complete his job in three weeks. I asked him, has the world changed in the last three weeks? He said I'm not interested, you guaranteed me. Before he hung up and I chucked his paperwork in the bin I asked him to google "force majeure". The are lots of legal sites going into much about it, but in laymens, according to Wikipedia-
Force majeure is a common clause in contracts that essentially frees both parties from liability or obligation when an extraordinary event or circumstance beyond the control of the parties, such as a war, strike, riot, crime, epidemic or an event described by the legal term act of God, prevents one or both parties from fulfilling their obligations under the contract. In practice, most force majeure clauses do not excuse a party's non-performance entirely, but only suspend it for the duration of the force majeure.[1]
Force majeure is generally intended to include occurrences beyond the reasonable control of a party, and therefore would not cover
Bear in mind, that a verbal contract is still an enforceable contract.
Ain't that right gru.