breach of promise

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim 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?”