material breach
material breach in Scots law, the kind of breach of contract that
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allows the victim to rescind the contract as being serious, going to the essentials of the contract. The term is not used in English law as a term of art but the Sale and Supply of Goods Act 1994 has introduced the idea to cases where the victim of the breach is not a consumer.