Both Uses

breach
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
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And let him never take any penalty for the breach of them to which a judge would not give way in a private man, but would look on him as a crafty and unjust person for pretending to it.†
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breach = break or penetrate
They, indeed, help their friends not only in defensive but also in offensive wars; but they never do that unless they had been consulted before the breach was made, and, being satisfied with the grounds on which they went, they had found that all demands of reparation were rejected, so that a war was unavoidable.†

Definitions:

(1) (breach)
break or failure
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.