Contravener

'In view of the numerous street handlers and flea-market dealers it has become absolutely necessary to draw attention to this offence and to issue warnings to any contravener in this regard.' ❋ Unknown (1995)

That initial stage of the dispute which consisted in the narration of the case and the enforcement of Mr. Tulliver’s views concerning it throughout the entire circle of his connections would necessarily take time; and at the beginning of February, when Tom was going to school again, there were scarcely any new items to be detected in his father’s statement of the case against Pivart, or any more specific indication of the measures he was bent on taking against that rash contravener of the principle that water was water. ❋ Unknown (1917)

That initial stage of the dispute which consisted in the narration of the case and the enforcement of Mr. Tulliver's views concerning it throughout the entire circle of his connections would necessarily take time; and at the beginning of February, when Tom was going to school again, there were scarcely any new items to be detected in his father's statement of the case against Pivart, or any more specific indication of the measures he was bent on taking against that rash contravener of the principle that water was water. ❋ George Eliot (1849)

"He ran a [foul] of [the law]" This behavior contravenes with our [rules] ❋ BioNuc (2011)