Sentences with phrase «breach of promise»

Folds filed a lawsuit against Barber, alleging breach of promise to marry, fraud, and specific performance.

Chilcot points out that by going to war in breach of this promise, Tony Blair undermined the authority of the Security Council without which the attack was unlawful.

With the passage of time, lovely old torts such as jactitation of marriage, criminal conversation, loss of consortium, enticement of a spouse, restitution of conjugal rights and breach of promise to marry have fallen by the wayside, banned by one provincial... [more]

181, 183 (1995); see generally Annotation, Constitutionality, Construction, and Application of Statutes Abolishing Civil Action for Alienation of Affections, Criminal Conversation, Seduction, and Breach of Promise to Marry, 158 A.L.R. 617, 619 (1945), supplemented by 167 A.L.R. 235 (1947).

Specifically, a party injured as a result of a defective medical product may seek damages against the manufacturer based on theories of a breach of a promise, express or implied, negligence, or strict product liability, including a failure to warn users of dangers.

Answer: That question is being tested right now in a Chicago court under theories of «breach of promise to marry» and «intentional infliction of emotional distress.»

As a bonus, the news story I linked destroys Newman's alibi that it was Gillard's deal with India that justified his breach of promise.

Once the Breach of Promise law started dissipating, a verbal promise just wasn't good enough anymore.

She also writes the popular novels featuring Victorian private investigator William Monk - among them, Funeral in Blue, Slaves of Obsession, The Twisted Root, A Breach of Promise, and The Silent Cry.

Trust in the sense of the breach of promise implicit in failing on a major matter to honour their manifesto commitment; honesty in the sense that GB and the Junta can easily be demonstrated to be lying when they assert that the Constitution is dead;

This is totally inadequate and a further breach of promise.»

As the report shows, in 2005 students primarily punished Labour for an apparent breach of promise on top - up fees, but the Tories did not benefit from joining the Liberal Democrats in promising to scrap tuition fees.

In the July Budget, Osborne also planned to cut tax credits, which top up pay for low - income workers, prompting claims that this represented a breach of promises made by colleagues before the general election in May.

Not exact matches

Oregon also accuses Oracle of breach of contract, along with civil racketeering, for «failing to deliver on its obligations, overcharging for poorly trained Oracle personnel to provide incompetent work, hiding from the state the true extent of Oracle's shoddy performance, continuing to promise what it could not deliver, and willfully refusing to honor its warranty to fix its errors without charge.»

Controversial reforms Greece promised to pass into law by Wednesday include reforming the VAT system, overhauling pensions and signing up to plans that ensure immediate spending cuts in the event of breaching creditor - mandated budget targets.

It wasn't until Wednesday that Mark Zuckerberg surfaced and acknowledged that this was a «breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it» and promised to take steps to repair that trust and prevent incidents like this from occurring again.

«FTC should immediately investigate and sanction apparent breach by Facebook of its 2011 agreement guaranteeing protection of consumer info — now a hollow promise,» Blumenthal wrote on Twitter.

In the agreement, which Facebook signed to end an investigation into privacy breaches, the company promised not to misrepresent the extent to which it maintains the privacy or security of personal information, and it said it would obtain users» affirmative consent before sharing personal information with any third party.

Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday finally broke his silence about the abuse of data on the platform by Cambridge Analytica, promising to redouble efforts to safeguard user privacy after the exposure of the massive data breach.

FTC should immediately investigate and sanction apparent breach by Facebook of its 2011 agreement guaranteeing protection of consumer info - now a hollow promise.

Doe's best argument might be «that the church breached a promise of confidentiality made by the member who said, in the lead - up to the baptism, «Nobody will find out.

11 - 12) and constitute a breach of God's promise to the patriarchs (vs. 13).

11 - 12) and constitute a shameful breach of Yahweh's promise to the patriarchs (v. 13; the prayer, as other aspects of the narrative, is informed by relatively late traditional stereotypes).

«In our view the change of indexation from RPI to CPI is an attack on accrued rights and a clear breach of manifesto promises.

What damages may a party seek for breach of contract: the loss suffered as a result of reliance on the other or the loss of the benefits that the contract promised?

NJ Gov. Chris Christie tackled the George Washington Bridge scandal head - on in his State of the State address, acknowledging errors and promising that his administration would work to keep «this breach of trust» from recurring.

My view is that marriage should be for life and that marriage (or an affair) before your spouse is dead is adultery and a breach of a solemn promise to your spouse, your family, your friends, and, if you're religious, your god.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took his mea - culpa tour to the pages of the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and six U.K. papers on Sunday, apologizing in a full - page ad for the company's «breach of trust» around the Cambridge Analytica scandal and promising to «do better.»

We are concerned that a public outcry about such an ethical breach could hinder a promising area of therapeutic development,» write Lanphier and his colleagues, who include Fyodor Urnov, a pioneer in gene - editing techniques and scientist at Sangamo BioSciences in Richmond, California.

Eastern Promises and Superbad (12 pts), 12:08 East of Bucharest (11 pts), Exiled (9 1/2 pts), Breach, The King of Kong, Atonement (8 pts).

And so, perhaps, when NJEA leaders objected to the selection of Paula White because of her association with DFER, Murphy, who had breached his contract with them, made a promise he could keep, even though that decision makes Repollet look far removed from the loop of state educational leadership, makes Murphy look like Pavlov's dog when confronted with a whiff of dissension from his patron, and makes NJEA look like Pavlov himself, a metamorphosis it may welcome after a humiliating defeat of the $ 5 million campaign to unseat Senate President Steve Sweeney by replacing him with a Trump - supporting climate - change - denying immigration - foe.

His short stories, «Paradox Effect,» «A Simple Breach of Etiquette,» and «Promises in a Reflecting Pool» received an honorable mention in the Writers of the Future contest 2012, 2013, AND 2014.

This indemnity clause is your promise to defend and reimburse the other party from legal claims and economic losses that arise from inaccuracies in your representations or your breach of the agreement.

The investment manager should also outline the key terms of any loans the scheme has and tell you if they have broken any promises made in loan agreements (called «loan covenant breaches»).

The lawsuit also states that» [CIG] utterly failed to follow through on those promises, and thier actions and omissions constitute breaches of contract and copyright infringement and have caused substantial harm to Crytek.»

Sony has recently recanted their promise that the Playstation Network, which has been offline since April 20th due to a successful security breach and theft of personal information, would be back up within a week.

[6] Now, over a century later, the descendants of the Métis people seek a declaration in the courts that Canada breached its obligation to implement the promises it made to the Métis people in the Manitoba Act.

Possible legal theories that can be argued in a products liability case include negligence (lack of reasonable care in the manufacture or sale of the product or in warning about the product), breach of warranty (failure to fulfill the terms of a promise regarding the product's performance), misrepresentation (giving consumers a false sense of security about a product's safety), and strict liability (under which the product's defect, although not the fault of the defendant, rendered the product unreasonably dangerous and the defendant is therefore responsible).

Carbone was accused of soliciting information from Bachelor participants, cast, crew and other employees of the series and inducing them to breach contracts promising not to divulge nonpublic information.

The applicants also seek a declaration that a promise made in writing by Mr. McGuinty on September 11, 2003, is a contract with the CTF and that Mr. McGuinty is in breach of this contract or, in the alternative, that this promise was a negligent misrepresentation.

Despite its written promises, at the time of the breach, ALM kept a user's data for a further 12 months even after they paid for the «full delete» and users were only told their data would be kept «due to legal and financial reasons» (such as processing chargebacks) after ALM accepted the user's payment.

In most cases, a breach of contract can be defined as broken promise, stemming from someone's failure to fulfill any term of a contract without a legitimate, lawful excuse.

The buyer is protected by (1) the contractual promise of the seller to deliver title in the purchase and sale contract (giving rise to a lawsuit if breached, e.g. requiring disgorgement of any additional profit made in the other transaction), (2) by a warranty of title in the deed provided at closing, (3) by the title company's insurance if the warranty deed is not valid, and (4) by an affidavit saying that the seller didn't do that provided at closing.

The Court of Appeal's decision signals that police who make promises of confidentiality to witnesses can be held to that promise and that a breach of confidence can warrant significant damages.

Represented a multi-state chemical company in binding commercial arbitration arising out of the sale of chemical plants • and the alleged breach for the failure to provide several promised chemical supply contracts.

Some Tribunals, such as the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, have made affirmation the default approach and ask witnesses to promise to tell the truth and to acknowledge that intentionally breaking that promise would be a breach of the law.

When your insurance company does any of these things they have breached their implied promise of good faith.

The Canadian Radio - Television and Telecommunication Commission (CRTC) has demonstrated the risks of failing to comply with Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL), with a $ 150,000 penalty against Porter Airlines in connection with breaches that the airline says were inadvertent and that it has promised to correct.

Although it is rare for a doctor or hospital to promise specific results from a procedure, surgery or treatment, if such a guarantee is given but not achieved, the failure to produce the promised outcome may give rise to an action for breach of contract or breach of warranty.

Breach of warranty usually refers to the failure of a seller or provider to fulfil the terms of a promise, or representation, made during the contracting process.