Word: breach
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Such a breach of the custom, so long established as to be almost law, would be a disgrace to its officers and would very seriously affect the feelings of the Commonwealth towards the college, for the people would not stop to discriminate or to remember that the insult was not really the act of the old and time-honored college, but merely a venting of spleen on the part of the narrow-minded and prejudiced men who, unfortunately, chance for the moment to represent her. [Wendell Phillips...
Henry Ward Beecher sat in the Supreme Court, New York, yesterday, as defendant in suit of Wilkeson against Beecher. There is an alleged breach of contract with his publishers in not completing the "Life of Christ...
...leave New London before the day mutually agreed upon arrived. (5.) Whether the motives of Harvard were fear of defeat (which is not believed) or an utter indifference to the Columbia race, caused by the winning of the Yale race, in either case her leaving New London was a breach of duty to the college and a breach of courtesy to Columbia. This position is one outside the disputes between the two crews, and is based on a supposed breach of duty by Harvard, and not on the merits of any wrangling between captains and coaches. It assumes that...
Miss Emilie Leste, of Montreal, has sued Alphonso Keroack, the wealthy manufacturer, for breach of promise, with damages...
Bolossey Kiralfy has been arrested for breach of contract...