breach of warranty
- noun
- /briːtʃ əv ˈwɔːrəntee/
- Formal
:
incumplimiento de garantía
- Under the Act, negligence and breach of warranty claims are no longer viable as separate claims for harm caused by defective products.
Examples
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The plaintiffs brought a class action in the Superior Court of Union County, North Carolina, alleging breach of warranty and violations of the North Carolina Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act.
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The customer was frustrated when the new appliance broke down, claiming it was a breach of warranty since it did not perform as promised.
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A&M then sued to recover damages based on FMC's breaches of warranties.
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Even so, pursuant to sections 16 and 17 of that Act, the insurer can contract out of the consequences of a breach of warranty; in other words, if he contracts out, he may be discharged from liability.
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According to this statutory provision, the insurer's right to terminate the contract is based not only on the breach of warranty by the assured but also on not being immediately notified of the breach by the assured.
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In recognition of the reality in practice, the Supreme People's Court has issued an interpretive statement which ostensibly allows the insurer to claim the right to terminate the contract even if he has not received any immediate notification of the breach of warranty by the assured.
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Regardless of whether a failure to warn claim is premised upon a theory of negligence, strict liability, or breach of warranty, the duty to warn arises only where the risk of harm is foreseeable to the defendant.
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After experiencing multiple issues with his car, he decided to take legal action for breach of warranty against the manufacturer.
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The company faced a lawsuit for breach of warranty because their product did not meet the advertised specifications.
Synonyms
Failure by a seller to keep a promise that the buyer can own the property without debts or claims
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: 'breach' means a failure to observe an obligation and 'warranty' means a written assurance about a product, so 'breach of warranty' straightforwardly = failure to fulfil the warranty. It follows a common 'breach of X' noun phrase pattern that is cross-linguistically regular, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Breach of warranty comes from old law: warranty was a seller's promise about a product and breach meant breaking that promise, like a hole in a wall. So, it means the seller did not keep the promise and the buyer can ask for 'repair' or 'money'.