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Civil Act — Article 537 (Obligor's burden to bear risk)

민법 제537조

If the performance of an obligation of one of the parties to a bilateral contract becomes impossible by any cause for which neither of the parties is responsible, the obligor may not be entitled to counter-performance.

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