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In which one of the following cases, a contract becomes void on the ground of subsequent impossibility?

Only personal incapacity to perform is genuine supervening impossibility under s.56, as where "A contracts to act at a theatre for six months in consideration of a sum paid…

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In which one of the following cases, a contract becomes void on the ground of subsequent impossibility?

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Only personal incapacity to perform is genuine supervening impossibility under s.56, as where "A contracts to act at a theatre for six months in consideration of a sum paid in advance by B. On several occasions A is too ill to act"; price rises, strikes and stock shortages in the other situations are mere commercial hardship and do not frustrate the contract.

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