Meanings
- rareInvolving or characterized by a violation of law, of legal rights, or of other rules governing conduct.
[S]neaking into someone’s personal communications is considered as a breachful act.
2014 May 6, Lexi Taylor, “How To Monitor Someones^([sic]) From Your iPhone?”, in MobieSpy, retrieved 29 Oct 20153 more examples
Acts and talk that induce breachful conduct (such as a refusal to negotiate with or participate in bouts sponsored by one's promoter) may be tortious.
1990, West's Federal Supplement (First Series), volume 742, page 774When a term of a contract is breached, whether the term is a warranty or a condition, the innocent party earns a right to be repaired for the damage he suffers as a consequence of the other party's breachful action or omission.
2007 May 19, Shamsuddin Choudhury, "Did British Airways go wrong?: A lawyer's point of view," Law & our rights, issue 20, thedailystar.net (retrieved 29 Oct 2015)William Goldstein, General Counsel for The David Lynch Foundation, sent Knapp an email strongly advising caution: “we intend to review the global web presentation for any false, defamatory, tortious, breachful, malicious or otherwise unlawful statements or materials made or published by you or the presenters.”
2009 April 6, Doug Mesner, “Reading, Writing, Transcendent Levitation”, in process.org, retrieved 29 Oct 2015
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