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breach of warranty

phrase

C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

The failure of a warranted statement to be true, giving rise to a claim in damages but not, of itself, a right to terminate the contract.

The undisclosed litigation amounted to a breach of warranty, and the buyer recovered the resulting diminution in value.

Topic: Contract collocations in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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