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    In legal theory, particularly in law and economics, efficient breach is a voluntary breach of contract and payment of damages by a party who concludes...
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  • Look up breach in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Breach, Breached, or The Breach may refer to: Breach, Kent, United Kingdom Breach, West Sussex, United...
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    Breach of contract is a legal cause of action and a type of civil wrong, in which a binding agreement or bargained-for exchange is not honored by one or...
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    it is costly to administer and may deter promisors from engaging in efficient breach. Professor Steven Shavell, for example, famously argued that specific...
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    Compensation rule: Some notes on an enforcement model and a theory of efficient breach". Columbia Law Review. 77 (4): 554–594. doi:10.2307/1121823. JSTOR 1121823...
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    will be a repudiatory breach, entitling the innocent party to terminate the contract and claim damages for that repudiatory breach. As interpreted by English...
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    Third-party beneficiary Breach of contract Anticipatory repudiation Cover Exclusion clause Efficient breach Deviation Fundamental breach Remedies Specific performance3...
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    under the contract, but it was established that the manufacturer was in breach of a duty of care owed to her. Accordingly, she was awarded damages in the...
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    example, where there has been an innocent but material misrepresentation, a breach of fiduciary duty, unconscionable conduct, or equitable fraud. Rescission...
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    Third-party beneficiary Breach of contract Anticipatory repudiation Cover Exclusion clause Efficient breach Deviation Fundamental breach Remedies Specific performance3...
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