physical impossibility

physical impossibility
Impossibility of accomplishment under the state of science and mechanics of the day. A concept which varies from age to age, even from decade to decade, illustrated by the inaptness of the stock example given not so many years ago of traveling from New York to London m one day. Le Roy v Jacobosky, 136 NC 443, 48 SE 796.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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