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What is an infraction?

What is an infraction? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (law) A minor offence, petty crime
  2. a violation; breach
  3. (ice hockey) A major violation of rules which leads to a penalty, if detected by the referee.
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Punishment is meted out to the offender because this is what he deserves in response to his infraction of the criminal law.
She says that the charge from that incident was a misdemeanor, an infraction that would not seem enough to establish her as a threat to aviation.
The House bill would make it a federal misdemeanor crime, rather than merely a civil infraction, to violate immigration laws.
Yet even on board, perhaps we could be hauled off for some unexplained and minor infraction of an unknown regulation.
In general, it means that whenever a public body exceeds or abuses the powers vested in it the courts may intervene to correct the infraction.
You bet, but never to the point where I would hesitate to inform on them for the slightest infraction.

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