DE · jury_instructions
Del. P.J.I. Civ. § 19.19
Performance Prevented by a Party
PERFORMANCE PREVENTED BY A PARTY TO THE CONTRACT
A party to a contract may not prevent another party from performing its
contractual duties and then claim that the other party has breached the contract or
failed to complete its terms. [For example, a farmer who contracts with a builder to
put up a barn on the farmer’s land must make the land available to the builder so that
the work may be done. Likewise, the farmer must not interfere with the progress of
the work.]
In this case, you must determine whether [party allegedly preventing
performance] prevented or otherwise interfered with [other party’s name]’s duty to
perform [describe terms of the contract].
Provenance
- Source
- courts.delaware.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-23
- Edition
- civ-2025-10-22
- Content hash
5a679a9c88e3c4cf1b6bd53f8a5523280d50da3bb8991e681a3b279b4a9d56dc
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