{"id":26905,"date":"2022-09-05T03:28:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T03:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.findlaw-admin.com\/ability-legal\/amjur\/contracts-sect-632.html"},"modified":"2022-08-25T11:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T11:47:59","slug":"contracts-sect-632","status":"publish","type":"amjur","link":"https:\/\/reference.findlaw.com\/amjur\/contracts-sect-632.html","title":{"rendered":"Am Jur 2d – Contracts \u00a7 632"},"content":{"rendered":"
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VI. Performance or Breach, F. Excuses for Nonperformance, 1. In General, \u00a7 632 – When nonperformance may be excused<\/h2>\n

One who agrees to do, for a fixed sum, a thing possible to be performed, will not be excused or become entitled to additional compensation because unforeseen difficulties are encountered.[1<\/a>] Nonperformance of a valid contract is a breach[2<\/a>] unless the person charged shows some valid reason which may excuse the nonperformance,[3<\/a>] and the burden of doing so rests upon the person charged with breach.[4<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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A prerequisite to the remedy of excuse of performance is that the covenants in a contract must be mutually dependent promises.[5<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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1<\/a> \u00a0 Dugan & Meyers Constr. Co., Inc. v. Ohio Dept. of Adm. Servs., 113 Ohio St. 3d 226, 2007-Ohio-1687, 864 N.E.2d 68, 218 Ed. Law Rep. 673 (2007)<\/a> <\/span>; El Paso Field Services, L.P. v. MasTec North America, Inc., 389 S.W.3d 802 (Tex. 2012)<\/a> <\/span>.
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2<\/a> \u00a0 Cater v. Barker, 172 N.C. App. 441, 617 S.E.2d 113 (2005)<\/a> <\/span>, aff’d, 360 N.C. 357, 625 S.E.2d 778 (2006)<\/a> <\/span>.
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3<\/a> \u00a0 Christopher Village, L.P. v. U.S., 360 F.3d 1319 (Fed. Cir. 2004)<\/a> <\/span>; Cater v. Barker, 172 N.C. App. 441, 617 S.E.2d 113 (2005)<\/a> <\/span>, aff’d, 360 N.C. 357, 625 S.E.2d 778 (2006)<\/a> <\/span>.
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4<\/a> \u00a0 Cater v. Barker, 172 N.C. App. 441, 617 S.E.2d 113 (2005)<\/a> <\/span>, aff’d, 360 N.C. 357, 625 S.E.2d 778 (2006)<\/a> <\/span>.
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5<\/a> \u00a0 Chambers v. Hunt Petroleum Corp., 320 S.W.3d 578 (Tex. App. Tyler 2010)<\/a> <\/span>.
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