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speeding is only a minor infraction, but vehicular homicide is a serious felony
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MORE ON HUGH FREEZE: The exchange over the phone call highlights the ugliness between Ole Miss and Nutt as the school attempts to fight one of the most expansive NCAA infractions cases in recent memory.
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Konte and the 20 other migrants in the truck with him were put in a tiny cell, where guards — mostly from Niger — beat them with pipes and electric cables for the slightest infraction.
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Because the infraction was revealed after her next round began, she was docked two extra shots for signing an incorrect scorecard.
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More: What's next for U of L in the NCAA infractions appeals process?
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The list of 22 minor infractions included nine from the football program mostly involving recruiting.
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Some safety infractions had already occurred at the lab that year.
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OneWest generated plenty of controversy when Mnuchin owned it, including claims that the bank ruthlessly foreclosed on individual homeowners for tiny infractions.
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Minor infractions, punishable by flogging, rarely came to him, but any decision for execution rested with him.
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An infraction is usually the breaking of a law, rule, or agreement. So a nation charged with an infraction of an international treaty will usually have to pay a penalty. In Federal law, an infraction is even smaller than a misdemeanor, and the only penalty is a fine. Most of us occasionally commit infractions of parking laws and get ticketed; speeding tickets are usually for infractions as well, though they go on a permanent record and can end up costing you money for years to come. The closely related word infringement generally refers to a violation of a right or privilege; use of another's writings without permission, for example, may be an infringement of the copyright.
Origin and Etymology of infraction
Middle English, from Medieval Latin infraction-, infractio, from Latin, subduing, from infringere to break — more at infringe
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: an act that breaks a rule or law
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