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In a ruling dated June 24, 2026, issued in a case pitting Stanley Black & Decker France against its marketing service provider, the Court of Cassation established the principle that, in order to terminate an established business relationship without notice by invoking force majeure, it is imperative to satisfy the condition set forth in Article 1218 of the Civil Code, namely the definitive impossibility of performing the contractual obligation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-10588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-law","tag-commercial-and-business-laws"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe concept of force majeure justifying the termination of established business relationships without notice - 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