Enojezični primeri (nepregledani od uredništva PONS)
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In jurisdictions where people can still take an action to court for breach of promise to marry, these are also some of the defences that can be pleaded.
Poor women turned to breach of promise to win money to support an illegitimate child or after being deserted by a man with whom they had cohabited for years.
To his dismay, breach of promise had been abolished, so he took up defamation (the law that allows people to sue for false statements that harm their reputations).