The Extent to Which Force Majeure Applies to Contractual Obligations in The Shadow of the Corona Pandemic

Abstract

This pandemic Covid-19 or Corona virus is an urgent foreign cause to the whole world, including the parties to the contractual relationship who had no hand in the occurrence of that pandemic and are not able and able to avoid their effects, regardless of the efforts they have made in that. Mostly (a foreign force majeure led to obstructing the implementation of the obligation and making the debtor’s implementation of his obligation impossible. Through this, the researcher aims to explain the effect of this adaptation on contracts. The researcher committed to his research in the comparative descriptive approach in explaining the concept of the pandemic from a linguistic standpoint and its effects on commitment in general and contractual in particular And the researcher reached to impart the proper legal adaptation of the pandemic to which most of the countries of the world as well as the French judiciary go, which is that the pandemic "covid 19" arising from the spread of the Corona virus is a foreign reason that represents a force majeure that prevents the debtor from carrying out his commitment and makes its implementation of his commitment impossible.