Subsequent impossibility of performance (e.g. delivery of goods/works)

• Contract is originally possible and later becomes impossible

• e.g. destruction of an individual object of sale or an individual work

• No possibility of replacement (delivery of an equivalent item)

• The creditor must be compensated for the contractual benefits that can no longer be realized.

Comparison to initial Impossibility

• Contract is not possible, absurd or forbidden to anyone from the outset

• Damages: The creditor is compensated only for expenses incurred in reliance on the contract. (reliance damage)