breach of promise
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breach of promise
noun breaches of promise · breach of contract to marry · breach of marriage promise · breach of promise of marriage · breach of promise to marry · breach-of-promise
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see breach, promise. In all such cases, the wrongful act, is the refusal to pay the money, according to promise; and this breach of promise, is laid in what is called the common breach or conclusion, at the end of the whole declaration.
- A tort in common law arising when a man withdraws an earlier promise to marry a woman; abolished in many jurisdictions. But suppose an agreement to marry made by a man in Scotland with a minor lady in England, would we decern for damages for breach of promise in such a case?
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noun tort of withdrawing a promise to marry
| Español | incumplimiento de la promesa de matrimonio |
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| Français | violation de promesse de mariage |
| Deutsch | Bruch des Eheversprechens |
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