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breach of promise
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breach of promise
Law (formerly) failure to carry out one's promise to marry


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10) Early breach-of-promise cases were mainly about responding to the financial harms of a broken engagement, but the action was reconceptualized over time as one centering around emotional wounds.
Rules of engagement by Tushnet, Rebecca / Yale Law Journal
Back home, there's a welter of paternity and breach-of-promise writs.
Rabbie the raver!; 200 years later... and burns is still a ladies' ... by Fyfe, Jim / Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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