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breakage. 1. An allowance given by a manufacturer to a buyer for goods damaged during transit or storage. 2. Insignificant amounts of money retained by racetrack promoters from bets. • The retention of these small sums avoids the inconvenience of counting and paying out inconsequential winnings. [Cases: Gaming  9.][Blacks Law 8th]

break,vb.1. To violate or disobey (a law) <to break the law>.2. To nullify (a will) by court proceeding <Samson, the disinherited son, successfully broke the will>.3. To escape from (a place of confinement) without permission <break out of prison>.4. To open (a door, gate, etc.) and step through illegally <he broke the close>.[Blacks Law 8th]

breadth of a claim.Patents. The scope or extent to which a patent claim excludes others from infringing activity.[Blacks Law 8th]

bread-and-cheese ordeal.See ordeal of the morsel under ORDEAL.[Blacks Law 8th]

bread acts.Hist. Laws providing for the sustenance of persons kept in prison for debt. • These laws were formerly on the books in both England and the United States.[Blacks Law 8th]

breach of warranty. 1. A breach of an express or implied warranty relating to the title, quality, content, or condition of goods sold. UCC § 2-312. [Cases: Sales  284. C.J.S. Sales § 251.] 2.Insurance. WARRANTY(3). [Blacks Law 8th]

breach of trust.A trustee’s violation of either the trust’s terms or the trustee’s general fiduciary obligations; the violation of a duty that equity imposes on a trustee, whether the violation was willful, fraudulent, negligent, or inadvertent. • A breach of trust subjects the trustee to removal and creates personal liability.[Blacks Law 8th]

breach of the peace.The criminal offense of creating a public disturbance or engaging in disorderly conduct, particularly by making an unnecessary or distracting noise. — Also termed breach of peace; disturbing the peace; disturbance of the peace; public disturbance. See disorderly conduct under CONDUCT. [Cases: Breach of the Peace  1–14. C.J.S. Breach of the Peace…

breach of promise.The violation of one’s word or undertaking, esp. a promise to marry. • Under English common law, an engagement to marry had the nature of a commercial contract, so if one party broke the engagement without justification, the innocent party was entitled to damages. See HEARTBALM STATUTE . [Cases: Breach of Marriage Promise …

breach of prison.See PRISON BREACH. [Blacks Law 8th]