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Definitions for breach of promise

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

breach′ of prom′ise*(n.)

  1. a violation of one's promise, esp. the promise of a man to marry a specific woman.

    Category: Law

* Law..

Origin of breach of promise:

1580–90

Princeton's WordNet

  1. breach of promise(noun)

    failure to keep a promise (of marriage)

Wiktionary

  1. breach of promise(Noun)

    A former tort in common law where a man withdraws an earlier promise to marry a woman.

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