Public wrongs are called crimes or public offenses whereas private wrongs are called torts and either involve the breach of a duty of care, a wrongful trespass against the person or property of another, and breaches of agreement or contract.
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He said in an interview that Washington had shown its hand last week after a senior American official visiting North Korea was told that the Pyongyang government had a nuclear weapons program, in breach of agreements signed in the 1990s.
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A High Court writ filed by the Provisional Urban Council ( PUC ) seeks judicial backing of its decision to terminate Wembley's 10-year contract to manage the stadium six years early and to claims for unspecified damages for breach of agreement.
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The Chinese living in California were with this decision left practically in a legal vacuum, because they had now no possibility to assert their rightful legal entitlements or claims possibly in cases of theft or breaches of agreement in court.
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But Prime Minister Ehud Barak's government has assembled these and other allegations into what amounts to a court-of-public-opinion brief for the proposition that Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority are now in breach of agreements signed in Oslo in 1993, in Washington in 1994, in Maryland in 1998 and in Egypt last month.
