Amid the current international sanitary crisis due to Covid-19 and the State of Alarm declared in Spain we should review the concept of “force majeure”, which has become an unexpected protagonist these days. Despite that, the Spanish legislation does not contain any specific regulation.
This concept has been therefore developed by the Spanish doctrine and jurisprudence, defining force majeure as “an extraordinary event originated from outside, unforeseen and unavoidable even when applying utmost diligence”. MORE.