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

contrasuppressor cells
contrat
contrate
contratenor
contratenors
contraterrene
contrats
contravallation
contravallations
contravariance
contravariances
contravariant
contravariant functor
contravene
contravened
contravener
contraveners
contravenes
contravening
contravention
contraventions
contraversial
contraversion
contraversions
contraversive
contrayerva
contrayervas
contrecoup
contrecoup injury of brain
contrecoups

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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