breach of promise

“In my view this is a breach of promise,” Habeck told reporters in Berlin.

“A broken engagement was almost always a scandal, as it risked a woman’s reputation and meant a man might be sued for breach of promise,” Greig said.

When he married Wing, Pollard retaliated with a “breach of promise” lawsuit, which enabled Victorian-era women to seek legal redress after a broken engagement.

Then stuff happened, including the birth of two children, and a breach of promise suit that made headlines in 1893.

“He had a breach of promise with a hairdresser, a widow, who came to Ann Arbor from St. Louis, Mich.”