Category:Infringement

In*fringe"ment, n.

1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.

2. An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass.