 Please subscribe to this YouTube channel mentor talk and do press bell button for notifications. The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has brutally disturbed the whole regime of compliances and fulfillment of obligations. These could be under the private contracts and agreements of any nature as well as under the statutes. In other words, I'm talking about contractual obligations and statutory obligations. Hundreds and thousands of contracts have been breached during these turbulent times and an equal number can be cited towards the non-compliances of laws. The government has come forward to grant indulgence in so far as compliances of laws are concerned. Time to time we have noticed that it has been granting extensions and concessions for the regulatory compliances which obviously could not be undertaken because of the coronavirus pandemic. But what is the legal position regarding the two scenarios? One where somebody is unable to fulfill obligations under a contract and another scenario being where a person is unable to comply with stipulated legal or statutory obligations expected by law to be complied with strictly and there being no concessions available and no extensions available. What to do in those scenarios? A contract is governed by its terms and conditions. If there is a force major clause in the contract which provides that any party breaching the contract shall be excused if that breach has occurred on account of an act of God or an event which was beyond the control of the party concerned meaning that it became impossible to comply the contractual terms due to a force major happening. Even in the absence of force major there is a significant provision of law under the Indian Contract Act which rescues the non-complier or let's say defaulter under the contract. This is called the Doctrine of Frustration. Yes, the Doctrine of Frustration embodied in section 56 of the Indian Contract Act 1852. It provides that any contract shall become void and invalid the compliance of which becomes impossible on account of occurrence of some event beyond the control of the party concerned or the compliance if done would be unlawful, would be branded as unlawful. Now what is the scenario of non-compliance of a legal or statutory obligation? That is scenario two I was introducing in the beginning. Well the jurisprudence and many judgments of the courts of law provide a window of relief to the parties who could prove beyond doubt either of the two legal magazines or principles. One being the principle of lex non-caudate and impossibilia implying that law shall never compel or require a person to do or comply anything which cannot possibly be done or complied with. Second legal magazine being impotentia excusat ligum meaning that law shall exempt and not blame a default on a party which is inept to carry out the obligation stipulated by law without any fault of the party itself. The courts of law have granted relief to the parties under these two legal magazines based on facts and circumstances. I may not have pronounced both the legal magazines very accurately but these are the two legal magazines which are available for the rescue of those who could land up breaching a statutory or legal obligation. Thank you and hope you found this video informative. See you again.