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total failure of consideration

n.

C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A ground for restitution arising where a party receives none of the bargained-for benefit it paid to obtain.

The goods never shipped, so on a total failure of consideration our client recovers the whole deposit.

Topic: Contracts in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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