violation
Definitions of violation
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a crime less serious than a felonysynonyms: crime, délit, froissement, infraction, transgressiontypes:perturbationany act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitledparjurecriminal offense of making false statements under oathtype of:
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trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intentsynonyms: attaque à main armée, cambriolagetype of:cambriolageentering a building unlawfully with intent to commit a felony or to steal valuable property
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