Breach

Breach may refer to:

Places

• Breach, Kent, United Kingdom
• Breach, West Sussex, United Kingdom

In law

• Breach of confidence, a common law tort that protects private information that is conveyed in confidence
• Breach of contract, a situation in which a binding agreement is not honored by one or more of the parties to the contract
• Breach of promise, a former common law tort.
• Breach of the peace, a legal term used in constitutional law in English-speaking countries
• Efficient breach, a breach of contract that the breaching party considers desirable
• Fundamental breach, a breach so fundamental that it permits the aggrieved party to terminate performance of the contract
• Breach of duty of care, common law Negligence

Military

• Door breaching, a process to force open closed and/or locked doors

In science and technology

• Breaching, a whale's leap out of the water
• Breach birth see Breech birth
• Door breaching, a series of techniques used to open locked doors
• Breaching experiment, a social experiment that tests people's reactions to the violation of accepted social norms

In entertainment

• "The Breach" (Enterprise episode), a second season episode of Star Trek: Enterprise
• Warp core breach, a catastrophic event aboard a starship in the Star Trek fictional universe
• (Breach), a 2000 album by The Wallflowers
• Breach (album), an EP by Shivaree
• Breach (comics), a 2005 comic book series from DC Comics
• Breach (film), a 2007 film directed by Billy Ray starring Chris Cooper and Ryan Philippe
• Breach (band), a Swedish post-hardcore band
• Breach (video game), a 2011 video game developed by Atomic Games

See also

• Breech (disambiguation)
• Tortious interference, a tort involving inducing persons to breach a contract