BREACH OF CONTRACT • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Breach of contract

"Breach of contract" Quotes from Famous Books

... into those allegations, and their report fell into the hands of the author after the account of the Amphitrite was printed. It does not appear, that the imputations of sordid calculation were well grounded, and no bond would have been enforced for an unavoidable breach of contract. ...

— The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2) • John West

... analogy could have been found between a breach of contract and those wrongs which excite the desire for vengeance. But it must be remembered that the distinction between tort and breaches of contract, and especially between the remedies for the two, is not found ready made. It is conceivable that a procedure adapted to redress for ...

— The Common Law • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

... returned to Paris; and while he was negotiating there for the defendant's appearance at the Vaudeville, he suddenly discovered that she was planning to go to America without him. As a result, he was now claiming damages for breach of contract. These he laid at the modest figure of ...

— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham

... select each other, and the state may make laws regulating the mode in which the contract shall be ratified; and determining its civil effects. It is, however, none the less an ordinance of God. The vows it includes are made to God; its sanction is found in his law; and its violation is not a mere breach of contract or disobedience to the civil law, but a sin against God. So with regard to the church, it is in one sense a voluntary society. No man can be forced by other men to join its communion. If done at all it must be done with his own consent, yet every man is under the strongest ...

— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various

... it appear that they belong to the city we will take care, after the service is past to which they are designed, that they are either restored or satisfaction made according to their value." In May it was found that the store of gunpowder in the Tower was likely to run short owing to a breach of contract, and again application for assistance was made to the City, who were asked to lend such gunpowder as lay in the Companies' halls.(1065) In March of the following year (1653) the request for guns in the City's magazines to be delivered to the ordnance officers for the public service ...

— London and the Kingdom - Volume II • Reginald R. Sharpe