Editing Breach of contract (section)

===Trivial breach===
A ''trivial breach'' is one that does not meet the standard for designation as a material, serious or substantial breach.

An [[Arizona Supreme Court]] decision in a 1990 commercial [[retail leasing|retail lease]] case noted that "the overwhelming majority of [US] jurisdictions... hold the landlord's right to terminate is not unlimited. We believe a court's decision to permit termination must be tempered by notions of equity and common sense. We thus hold a forfeiture for a trivial or immaterial breach of a commercial lease should not be enforced."<ref>Supreme Court of Arizona, [https://law.justia.com/cases/arizona/supreme-court/1990/cv-89-0010-pr-2.html Foundation Dev. Corp. v. Loehmann's], 163 Ariz. 438 (1990), accessed 25 January 2021</ref>

In Rice (t/a The Garden Guardian) v [[Great Yarmouth Borough Council]] (2000),<ref>All ER (D) 902, CA</ref> the UK Court of Appeal decided that a clause which provided that the contract could be terminated "if the contractor commits a breach of any of its obligations under the contract" should not be given its [[literal meaning]]: it was considered "contrary to business common sense" to allow any breach at all, however trivial, to create grounds for termination.<ref name=winser>Winser, C., ''Terminating a Commercial Contract for Material Breach'', Crown Office Chambers, June 2007</ref>