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Definition of Contravener
1. n. One who contravenes.
Definition of Contravener
1. Noun. One who contravenes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contravener
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contravener
Literary usage of Contravener
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treatise on Deeds and Forms Used in the Constitution, Transmission, and by Alexander Duff (1838)
"Entail. death of the contravener (s). (3.) It has been successfully ... elf without
being anywise liable for such contravener's debts and deeds or to make ..."
2. A Manual of Conveyancing: In the Form of Examinations Embracing Both by John Hendry, John Thompson Mowbray, John Philip Wood (1881)
"(2) D, although not the immediate substitute to the contravener, is entitled to
reduce; the right of reduction being competent to any substitute, ..."
3. A Treatise on the Deed of Entail: Embracing, Commentaries on the Amendment by Alexander Duff (1848)
"The reduction of a forbidden deed may be pursued even after the death of the
contravener, but declarator to the penal effect of forfeiture of the right of ..."
4. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, James Ivory (1828)
"... that after having obtained declarator of irritancy against the contravener,
he pass him by, though he had been last seised in the fee, and serve heir to ..."
5. Lectures on Conveyancing by Alexander Montgomerie Bell (1882)
"In such cases an heir descended of the contravener has no interest to declare
the forfeiture, and is excluded from so doing.8 In a case where there was a ..."
6. Cases Decided in the House of Lords: On Appeal from the Courts of Scotland by James Wilson, Patrick Shaw, Charles Hope Maclean, William Reginald Courtenay Devon (1829)
"... is contrary to every principle of law and of justice, to permit an action of
declarator of contravention to proceed after the death of the contravener. ..."
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