COVID19 in the Ambit of Force Majeure and Doctrine of Frustration Author : Alika Jain of The ICFAI University, Dehradun Introduction  ‘Force Majeure’ means an “event which may be neither anticipated nor controlled . . . [and] includes both acts of nature (e.g., floods and hurricanes) and acts of people (e.g., riots, strikes, and wars).”[i]