Impossible Contracts
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
An impossible contract is one which the law will not hold binding upon the parties, because of the natural or legal impossibility of the performance by one party of that which is the consideration for the promise of the other.
7 Wait, Act. & Def. 124.
Impossible contracts, which will be deemed void in the eye of the law, or of which the performance wlll be excused, are such contracts as cannot be performed, either because of the nature of the obligation undertaken, or because of some supervening event which renders the performance of the obligation either physically or legally impossible.
10 Amer. & Eng. Enc. Law, 176.