To infringe on, to break.
1798. I think every nation has a right to establish that form of government, under which it conceives it shall live most happy; provided it infracts no right, or is not dangerous to others; and that no governments ought to interfere with the internal concerns of another, except for the security of what is due to themselves.—Geo. Washington, ‘Writings’ (1893), xiv. 127. (N.E.D.)
1838. Mr. Bynum hoped he was the last man in that House, or out of it, that would knowingly infract any rule of that House.—House of Repr., Jan. 24: Cong. Globe, p. 77, App.
1854. This bill will not only infract the rights and degrade the dignity of the land States but, &c.—Mr. C. C. Clay of Alabama, U.S. Senate, July 12: id., p. 1705.
1859. I deny utterly the right of any one, secessionist or abolitionist, to infract or nullify any law of the United States or any clause of its Constitution, for any purpose.—S. S. Cox, ‘Eight Years in Congress,’ p. 96 (1865).
