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This article make an examination of the legal notion impossibility of performance of the contract. A figure that is usually used by the debtor when there is no fault and due to a fortuitous event or force majeure. The law is a science that regulates the facts that impact the lives of people in their legal relationships, in this sense, civil liability claims are supported by facts that are linked in accordance with a hypothesis indicated by the creditor; Thus, in this same direction, the debtor is also given the opportunity to invoke a fortuitous event or force majeure in a situation that is beyond his power of action. The impossibility of performance either for reasons of a natural fact (act of God) or an act of authority must be analyzed.