How To Use Breach of promise In A Sentence
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Deprived at one blow of most of his precedents, "shorn" -- as the Breach of Promise Reports puts it -- "of its usual attractions," FIBBINS's speech becomes an impotent affair.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 10, 1891
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Damages for "loss of reputation" are as outmoded as the damages which husbands used to recover against co-respondents and jilted females used to recover for breach of promise.
Labour MP Wins Libel Case
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Breach of promise is the last thing that he is likely to commit.
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But this was not a case of forgetfulness or a breach of promise; it was another misunderstanding.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mrs. Bardell let lodgings to many conversable single gentlemen, with great profit, but never brought any more actions for breach of promise of marriage.
The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
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‘I suppose you have not heard that one young man levanted last year to save himself from a breach of promise case?’
The Last Chronicle of Barset
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But this was not a case of forgetfulness or a breach of promise; it was another misunderstanding.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet in such circumstances the woman who has been left in the lurch is supposed to suffer, quite apart from the damage to her affection, a sort of moral damage and disgrace from the heartlessness or fickleness of another person – the man to whom she has been engaged; and this moral damage is, I believe, taken into account in actions for breach of promise of marriage (where there is no question of seduction).
Marriage as a Trade
