Ministers insisted that putting up tents was simply a goodwill gesture that did not contravene the law.

A contravention existed so long as one ought to have known of the facts that show a dividend would contravene the law.

Or you will fall off and then be arrested for contravening the law.

Since the confessing congregations would have to contravene the laws as interpreted by the official church bodies, the synod developed an emergency law of its own.