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What are they? For every type of breach of contract, is the party that breached the contract automatically
relieved of his/her duty from performing the contract?
Anticipatory Breach: under Anticipatory Breach of Contract if the aggrieved party does not
choose to treat the contract as discharged then the contracts is considered to be existing and
the other party may perform the contract. So the breached party is not automatically relieved
of his/her duty from performing the contract and anticipatory breach does not itself discharge
a contract.
Actual Breach: Under the actual breach of contract, if a party to an agreement owes a duty to
perform and fails to perform the duty then the party can only be discharged from their
obligation by the aggrieved party. Also, the aggrieved party must look for an alternative
source to perform the duty owed under the agreement. And they should ask for remedies for