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Definition of Anticipatory breach
1. Noun. A breach of contract committed prior to the time of required performance.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anticipatory Breach
Literary usage of Anticipatory breach
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law and Practice in Bankruptcy Under the National Bankruptcy Act of 1898 by William Miller Collier, William Horace Hotchkiss, Frank Bixby Gilbert, Fred Eugene Rosbrook (1921)
"(II) anticipatory breach.— It is well established that if a party to an executory
contract has by his own act made compliance with such contract impossible, ..."
2. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1916)
"PROVABLE DEBT— DAMAGES FOB anticipatory breach OF CONTRACT. 2. The filing of an
involuntary petition In bankruptcy against a baggage transfer and livery ..."
3. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"One of the first cases relied on as establishing the doctrine of anticipatory
breach involved prospective inability to perform because of a lease to a third ..."
4. The Law of Contracts by Edward Avery Harriman (1901)
"anticipatory breach OF CONTRACT. § 553. The Nature of anticipatory breach.
— In addition to the secondary obligation to pay damages for breach of contract, ..."
5. Law of Contract by William Theophilus Brantly (1912)
"Hart,2 the Master of Rolls said: "Where there has been what has been called an
anticipatory breach of contract, going to the whole consideration, ..."
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