repudiation
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 297 U.S. 672 - New York Life Ins Co v. Viglas · 1936Most cited · 350 citing opinions
Repudiation there was none as the term is known to the law. Petitioner did not disclaim the intention or the duty to shape its conduct in accordance with the provisions of the contract. Far from repudiating those provisions, it appealed to their authority and endeavored to apply them.
How often courts cite the cases defining “repudiation”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “repudiation” — 529 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1935–1936
- ORIGINAL
Repudiation by one party, to be sufficient in any case to entitle the other to treat the contract as absolutely and finally broken and to recover damages as upon total breach, must at least amount to an unqualified refusal, or declaration of inability, substantially to perform according to the terms of his obligation