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repudiation : the rejection or renunciation of a duty or obligation (as under a contract) ;esp : anticipatory repudiation NOTE: A party aggrieved by a repudiation may consider a repudiated contract to have been breached and bring an action for relief. ...
Repudiation
Repudiation, (1) the putting away of a wife or of a woman betrothed; (2) the renunciation of a contract [which renders the repudiator liable to be sued for breach of contract, and entitles the repudiatee, on accepting the repudiation, to treat the contract as at an end: see per Lord Blackburn in Mersey Steel and Iron Co. v. Naylor, (1884) 9 App Cas 434] (see WARRANTY); (3) the refusal to accept a benefice.A contracting party's words or actions that indicate an intention not to perform the contract in the future; a threatened breach of contract, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1306....
Repudiation
The act of repudiating or the state of being repuddiated as the repudiation of a doctrine a wife a debt etc...
anticipatory repudiation
anticipatory repudiation : a refusal by one party to a contract to perform his or her future obligations under the contract that is expressed either by a clear statement of refusal or by a statement or action that clearly implies refusal ...
repudiate
repudiate -at·ed -at·ing : to disavow or reject an obligation (as a debt) or duty (as performance under a contract) ;specif : to indicate an inability or unwillingness to perform as promised under (a contract) re·pu·di·a·tor [-ā-tər] n ...
Repudiable
Admitting of repudiation fit or proper to be put away...
Repudiator
One who repudiates...
Warranty
Warranty, a guarantee or security; formerly a promise or covenant by deed by the bargainer, for himself and his heirs, to warrant and secure the bargainee and his heirs against all persons for the enjoying of the thing granted accompanied by a promise, express or implied, that if eviction should take place, the warrantor would substitute an equivalent estate in its place-see Co. Litt. 365 a. In that form it has been superseded in practice by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, cc. 27 (s. 39) and 74 (s. 14). See RECOVERY.More generally, a warranty is any agreement either accompanying a transfer of property, or collateral to the contract for such transfer, see Lawrence v. Cassell, (1930) 2 KB 83, and Miller v. Cannon Hill Estates Ltd., (1931) 2 KB 113, or to any other agreement or transaction, and in so far as it is a contract a warranty does not differ from any other contractual promise. A warranty may be express or implied by law or statute.For instances of implied warranties, see that title, CAVEAT EMPTOR, ...
Desertion
Desertion, (1) the criminal offence of abandoning the naval or military service without license. See ss. 12 et seq. of the (English) Army Act, 1881, replacing similar s.s of the (English) annual Mutiny Acts, and Reg. v. Cuming, (1887) 19 QBD 13.Also (2) an abandonment of a wife, a matrimonial offence, for which the remedy is under (English) Judicature Act, 1925, s. 185, by which a sentence of judicial separation may be obtained either by the husband or wife on the ground of desertion, without cause, for two years and upwards; and see (English) Matrimonial Causes Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 85), s. 21, as to orders for the protection of the property of wives deserted by their husbands; and the (English) Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895 (58 & 59 Vict. c. 39), repealing and re-enacting the (English) Married Women (Maintenance in Case of Desertion) Act, 1886, under which a deserted wife may obtain an order from justices of the peace that the husband pay her such weekly sum, n...
breach
breach 1 a : a violation in the performance of or a failure to perform an obligation created by a promise, duty, or law without excuse or justification breach of duty : a breach of a duty esp. by a fiduciary (as an agent or corporate officer) in carrying out the functions of his or her position breach of trust : a breach by a trustee of the terms of a trust (as by stealing from or carelessly mishandling the funds) breach of warranty : a breach by a seller of the terms of a warranty (as by the failure of the goods to conform to the seller's description or by a defect in title) NOTE: A seller may be liable for a breach of warranty even without any negligence or misconduct. b : failure without excuse or justification to fulfill one's obligations under a contract called also breach of contract compare repudiation an·tic·i·pa·to·ry breach : a breach of contract that occurs as a result of a party's anticipatory repudiation of the contract ef·fi·c...
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