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Contravention

A Law Dictionary and Glossary · George C. Kinney · 1893

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

In Scots law. The act of breaking through any restraint imposed by deed, covenant or court; an action founded on the breach of law burrows. Contraxisse unnsgnisqne in eo loco intelligitnr, in qao solveret se obligavit, i Every one is understood to have contracted in that place where he has bound himself to pay.