What is a 'breach of contract'?

What is a 'breach of contract'?

Michael Ehline (Attorney at Law) gives expert video advice on: What is a 'contract'?; What is a 'breach of contract'?; What is a 'breach of confidence' under contract law? and more...

A breach of contract is simply a situation where the parties had an agreement to do or not to do something that may have been written, oral or implied, and that one of the other parties failed to abide by that agreement. The breach of which implies a remedy, usually contract damages. Usually these types of damages are called actual or expectancy damages. Those damages would be what you expected under the contract.