Contrafaction, Contrefacon

CONTRAFACTION - Counterfeiting, imitating. In the French law contrafaction is the illegal reprinting of a book for which the author or his assignee has a copyright, to the prejudice of the latter.

CONTREFACON - French Law. Counterfeit. This is a bookseller's term, which signifies the offence of those who print or cause to be printed, without lawful authority, a book of which the author or his assigns have a copyright.
   

This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.