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Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto (les engagements contractés, Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly (éventuellement, Fr.) in another.

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