Contravention Definition

Contravention Sentence Examples

• Foote (1780-1846) of Connecticut, calling for the restriction of the sale of public lands to those already in the market, but was con cerned primarily with the relation to one another and the respective powers of the federal government and the individual states, Hayne contending that the constitution was essentially a compact between the states, and the national government and the states, and that any state might, at will, nullify any federal law which it considered to be in contravention of that compact.

• Contravention of the letter or intention of this Code of Conduct may be used to terminate membership.

• Both the US and the British governments use evidence obtained under torture, in contravention of the Geneva Convention.

• The company is liable to a fine of twenty pounds a day if it should open the line in contravention of such order or direction.

• The court of Vienna had treated the Silesian Protestants with tyrannical severity, in direct contravention of the treaty of Osnabruck, of which Sweden was one of the guarantors; and Charles demanded summary and complete restitution so dictatorially that the emperor prepared for war.