breach

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breach

1. the act of a whale in breaking clear of the water

2. the breaking of sea waves on a shore or rock

3. an obsolete word for wound

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The courts have characterized section 9-503 [the predecessor to current section 9-609] as recognizing a nondelegable duty to avoid breaches of the peace." (footnote omitted)).

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His son, John Jack, 33, an Avoch player, of Rosehaugh East Drive, Avoch, admitted two breaches of the peace and breaking the windows and door, and was fined pounds 475.

Soccer club's bosses fined for rioting

But Greenock sheriffs Sir Stephen Young and John Herald dished out the most custodial sentences in Scotland for theft, for crimes of dishonesty, for simple assaults and for breaches of the peace.