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Repudiation

The rejection or refusal of a duty, relation, right, or privilege.

Repudiation of a contract means a refusal to perform the duty or obligation owed to the other party.

Anticipatory Repudiation is an act or declaration before performance is due under a contract that indicates that the party will not perform his or her obligation on the future date specified in the contract.

repudiation

n. denial of the existence of a contract and/or refusal to perform a contract obligation. Repudiation is an anticipatory breach of a contract. (See: contract, anticipatory breach)

repudiation

noun abjuration, abolition, abrogation, annulment, breach, cancellation, confutation, contradiction, counterorder, countermand, declination, defeasance, denial, deposition, disaffirmation, disagreement, disallowance, disapproval, disavowal, disclaimer, disproof, disproval, dissent, dissociation, exclusion, forswearing, negation, nonobservance, nullification, refusal, refutation, rejection, renouncement, repeal, repellence, repudiatio, rescission, retraction, reversal, revocation, setting aside, veto, voidance, withdrawal
Associated concepts: repudiation of a contract

REPUDIATION. In the civil law this term is used to signify the putting away of a wife or a woman betrothed.
2. Properly divorce is used to point out the separation of married persons; repudiation, to denote the separation either of married people, or those who are only affianced. Divortium est repudium et separatio maritorum; repodium est renunciatio sponsalium, vel etiam est divortium. Dig. 50, 16, 101, 1. Repudiation is also used to denote a determination to have nothing to do with any particular thing; as, a repudiation of a legacy, is the abandonment of such legacy, and a renunciation of all right to it.
3. In the canon law, repudiation is the refusal to accept a benefice which has been conferred upon the party repudiating.

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In addition, a plea for award of further damages for loss of reputation caused to GMR as a consequence of wrongful repudiation of the concession agreement has also been made to the Arbitral Tribunal, the quantification of which is subject to expert evidence.

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Kuehn argues that reading repudiation as an act of individualism against family obligations or conversely as an act of "some Renaissance era Tuscan version of 'amoral familialism'" (213) against social and legal obligations is too simplistic.

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This technology minimizes repudiation and the merchant's need to save paper receipts.

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Unaltered, confidential data is critical to avoid the risk of leaks of confidential data and pricing and possible repudiation of the transaction.

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Its spokesman, Dan Kay, commented, `The city and the media saw it as a repudiation of racism and a positive reaffirmation of the city's commitment to cultural diversity, but the Christians involved believe it is also important as the removal of an obstacle to spiritual blessing and renewal.

Leicester renounces anti-Semitism

Such a stance underlies Norbrook's reading of Milton's covert repudiation of an ambitious and monarchical Cromwell in his late prose and in Paradise Lost.

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Trade risks include issues such as contract repudiation or wrongful calling of on-demand bonds or guarantees, as well as exchange-transfer restrictions, war, export embargoes, license cancellation and nonpayment by governments or state-controlled institutions.

AIG Ventures Into Political Risk Business in Southeast Asia

The "ism" added to his name has become a generic symbol of guilt by accusation, character assassination, the big lie, and the repudiation of our country's traditional devotion to fair play and a fair trial.

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Most expressed various degrees of "disappointment" in the document's relatively cautious and muted self-criticism, while a minority praised the statement's repudiation of anti-Semitism.

Vatican urges repentance for sins of omission

While philosophical questions of free will and natural law may not have consciously inspired the "Prime Directive", this particular plot device certainly derives from the kind of New Age historical revisionism which has popularized the repudiation of "Euro-centrism" and the European colonization of the Americas.

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The failure to acknowledge the complexity of historical experience in Faulkner's narratives of repudiation points to the central importance of the process delineated in Baldwin's Just Above My Head:

Syndetic redemption: above-underground emergence in David Bradley's 'The Chaneysville Incident.'

Saft, a partner with Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz, is one of those concerned the repudiation of leases would pass to those who purchased some of the RTC's units.