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Contravention

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In Frenoh law. An act which violates the law, a treaty, or an agreement which the party has made. That infraction of the law punished by a fine which does not exceed fifteen franca and by an imprisonment not exceeding three daya.

Pen. Code, 1.

In Scotch law

The act of breaking through any restraint imposed by deed, by covenant, or by a court