Frustration of purpose due to change of position: Experiences of the “mixed jurisdictions”
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article analyses the problem of change of position and frustration of purpose in “mixed jurisdictions”. Frustration of contractual purpose is the doctrine that is known in English law and derives from the so called “coronation cases”. At the same time frustration of contractual purpose is a particular case of subsequent change of external situation. The author systematically considers the issue in the civil law of Louisiana and Quebec. Louisiana and Quebec are “mixed jurisdictions” that harmoniously combine elements of civil law and common law. But today mentioned legal systems solve problems of change of position and frustration of purpose with the help of traditional institutions of civil law: impossibility, force majeure and the doctrine of cause. In practice it leads to that the issue of the influence of change of circumstances and frustration of contractual purpose on obligations becomes stubborn. The reason of it is the objective unsuitability of mentioned doctrines to the issue. Therefore, we need to mention the experience of Argentina. Argentina is not a “mixed jurisdiction” but its Civil and Commercial Code reformed in 2015 harmoniously combine elements of civil law and common law with the aim to solve practical problems. The Civil and Commercial Code of Argentina provides rules not only about subsequent extraordinary change of position and its consequences but in the single article regulate frustration of contractual purpose. Frustration of contractual purpose in Argentina is closely connected with the doctrine of causa. Therefore in the framework of the doctrine of frustration of contractual purpose both the typical purpose of contract of certain kind (i. e. cause in civil law) and the motive that is unique for each contract have legal sense. Recognizing in the Civil and Commercial Code of Argentina the legal sense of party’s motive for entering into contract Argentina in fact departs from the canons of continental law that doesn’t recognize the legal sense of such motives.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.006 | 0.014 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.017 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.011 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".