in law, is nearly the same in the crown-office, as what in other courts is called a declaration. It is sometimes brought by the king, or his attorney general, or the clerk of the crown-office; and at other times by a private person, who informs or sues, as well for the king as himself, upon the breach of some popular statute, in which a penalty is given to the party that will sue for it.

INFRINGEMENT, a term chiefly used to signify the violation of a treaty.