Editing Breach of promise (section)

==Similar actions in law==

[[Criminal conversation]] was a similar tort, arising from [[adultery]], in which a married person could sue the person with whom his or her spouse had engaged in adultery.<ref name=NYLaw />  [[Alienation of affections]] was another similar tort against a third party who encouraged the adultery, or who was otherwise responsible for the breakdown of the marriage.<ref name=NYLaw />

===Non-common-law jurisdictions===
France nominally did not permit breach of promise actions, holding that marriage must involve free consent from both parties, and if the engagement is legally binding, then free consent is not possible. However, any party may sue for losses as a result of improper behavior by an engaged person.<ref name="Reform" />

In Scots law before 1812, damages were limited only to actual financial losses.<ref name="Reform" />

After World War II, German, Spanish, and Italian law allowed for the recovery of actual damages incurred as a result of a failed engagement.<ref name=Reform />