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fundamental breach

noun/ˌfʌndəˈmɛntl briːtʃ/

B2CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister

A breach going to the root of the contract that deprives the innocent party of substantially the whole benefit.

The wholesale failure to deliver amounted to a fundamental breach entitling the buyer to terminate.

Similar: repudiatory breach

Topic: Contracts 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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