CONTREFACON

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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. Merl. Rep. h.t.