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Breach of promise

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Noun
  1. 1
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see breach, promise. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    failure to keep a promise (of marriage) wordnet
  3. 3
    A tort in common law arising when a man withdraws an earlier promise to marry a woman; abolished in many jurisdictions. countable, uncountable

    "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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