Contracts are not broken, the appropriate word is
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Contracts are not broken, the appropriate word is BREACHED
Quibbling about words again. Maybe you should admonish the Supreme Court on their laxity.
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MR. JUSTICE McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.
This cause presents the following question: does a discharge in bankruptcy acquit an express obligation of the principal to indemnify his surety against loss by reason of their joint bond, conditioned to secure his faithful performance of a building contract broken prior to the bankruptcy when the surety paid the consequent damage thereafter?
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/236/549/
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When the consideration for a contract fails . . . we say that the contract
was broken.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/18/18-...t4Cert.pdf
et al.