repudiation

repudiation
A rejection, disclaimer, or renunciation of a contract before performance is due that does not operate as an anticipatory breach unless the promisee elects to treat the rejection as a breach and brings a suit for damages. The rejection or refusal of an offered or available right or privilege, or of a duty or relation. The act of a buyer or seller in rejecting a contract of sale either partially or totally. U.C.C. No.No. 2-610, 2-703, 2708, 2-711.
Repudiation of a contract means refusal to perform duty or obligation owed to other party. Pitcher v. Lauritzen, 18 Utah 2d 368, 423 P.2d 491, 493.
Such consists in such words or actions by contracting party as indicate that he is not going to perform his contract in the future. Continental Cas. Co. v. Boerger, Tex.Civ. App., 389 S.W.2d 566, 568.
Repudiation of contract is in nature of anticipatory breach before performance is due, but does not operate as anticipatory breach unless promisee elects to treat repudiation as breach, and brings suit for damages. Such repudiation is but act or declaration in advance of any actual breach and consists usually of absolute and unequivocal declaration or act amounting to declaration on part of promisor to promisee that he will not make performance on future day at which contract calls for performance. Robinson v. Raquet, 1 Cal.App.2d 533, 36 P.2d 821, 825.
In the civil law, the casting off or putting away of a woman betrothed; also, but less usually, of a wife; divorcement.
In ecclesiastical law, the refusal to accept a benefice which has been conferred upon the party repudiating.
See also refusal
@ anticipatory repudiation
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  • répudiation — [ repydjasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • 1342; lat. repudiatio 1 ♦ Action de répudier (qqn). 2 ♦ Fig. Action de rejeter (un sentiment, une opinion, etc.); son résultat. ⇒ 2. rejet. « Sa conduite dans cette occasion parut la répudiation de ses principes » (… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • repudiation — re·pu·di·a·tion /ri ˌpyü dē ā shən/ n: the rejection or renunciation of a duty or obligation (as under a contract); esp: anticipatory repudiation ◇ A party aggrieved by a repudiation may consider a repudiated contract to have been breached and… …   Law dictionary

  • Repudiation — Re*pu di*a tion ( [hand] sh?n), n. [Cf.F. r[ e]pudiation, L. repudiatio.] The act of repudiating, or the state of being repuddiated; as, the repudiation of a doctrine, a wife, a debt, etc. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Repudiation — Re*pu di*a tion, n. One who favors repudiation, especially of a public debt. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • repudiation — Repudiation. s. f. v. Action de repudier. La repudiation a esté long temps en usage dans l ancienne Rome …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Repudiation — (v. lat.), 1) Verschmähung, Ausschlagung, Zurückweisung; 2) Verstoßung; 3) die Erklärung einiger nordamerikanischer Staaten, weder die Staatsschulden noch Zinsen bezahlen zu wollen …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Repudĭation — (Repudium, lat.), »Verwerfung«, Auflösung einer Verbindung (z. B. einer Ehe); Ablehnung, Ausschlagung, namentlich eines Vermächtnisses. In Nordamerika versteht man unter R. die Weigerung eines Staates, eine von ihm kontrahierte Schuld zu bezahlen …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Repudiation — Repudiatiōn, Repudĭum (lat.), Abweisung, Ausschlagen, z. B. eines Vermächtnisses; in den Ver. Staaten von Amerika (in Virginia Readjustment genannt), die Nichtzahlung einer gültig kontrahierten Schuld samt Zinsen seitens eines Staates oder einer… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • repudiation — 1540s, “divorce” (of a woman by a man), from L. repudiationem, noun of action from repudiare (see REPUDIATE (Cf. repudiate)). Meaning “action of disowning” is from 1840s …   Etymology dictionary

  • répudiation — (ré pu di a sion ; en vers, de six syllabes) s. f. 1°   Action de répudier. Répudiation de succession. 2°   Action de renvoyer légalement une épouse. •   Selon le témoignage de ce grave auteur [Castelnau], la répudiation [de Catherine d Aragon… …   Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

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