Failure to perform within the allotted time may discharge a contract due to which doctrine?

• A. Termination
• B. Destruction
• C. Statute of limitations
• D. Misrepresentation

Answer: (C)

Time-related deadlines in contract law create a window to enforce a breach, and the clock for that window is set by the statute of limitations. If performance is due by a certain date and isn’t delivered, that’s a breach, but the right to sue for that breach isn’t unlimited. The statute of limitations limits how long the injured party can pursue legal action. When that period runs out, the claim is barred by law, effectively discharging the ability to recover for that breach. In this sense, the contract can be discharged because the remedy is no longer available due to the time limit.

The other options don’t fit this situation as cleanly: termination is a general end of the contract rather than a time-bar defense; destruction would be about the matter contracted for being lost, not about a deadline to sue; misrepresentation concerns false statements, not a time-for-suit issue.