VA · jury_instructions
Va. Model Jury Instr. Civ. No. 45.400
Material Breach of Contract
A material breach of contract occurs if a party fails to do something which he is bound to do
according to the contract which is so important and central to the contract that the failure defeats
an essential purpose of the contract.
History
Virginia Model Jury Instructions – Civil, Release 26, April 2026. The unannotated set, posted by the Supreme Court of Virginia at vacourts.gov; the book states that it is made available with the permission of the publisher, Matthew Bender & Company, Inc.
Provenance
- Source
- vacourts.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-11
- Edition
- civ-2026-04-01
- Content hash
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