Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Infringement

Infringement , noun

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.