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• IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

IGNORANCE (See also:

• LAT

Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of mind which in See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law has important consequences. A well-known legal See also:

• MAXIM, SIR HIRAM STEVENS (184o- )

maxim runs: ignorantia See also:

• JURIS

juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")  . With this is sojnetimes coupled another See also:

• MAXIM, SIR HIRAM STEVENS (184o- )

maxim: ignorantia facti excusat (" See also:

• IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

ignorance of the fact excuses ") . That every one who has capacity to understand the See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law is presumed to know it is a very necessary principle, for otherwise the courts would be continually occupied in endeavouring to solve problems which by their very impracticability would render the See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice next to impossible . It would be necessary for the See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court to engage in endless inquiries as to the true inwardness of a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man's mind, whether his See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state of ignorance existed at the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the See also:

• COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission of the offence, whether such a See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition of mind was inevitable or brought about merely by indifference on his See also:

• PART

part . Therefore, in See also:

• ENGLISH

English, as in See also:

• ROMAN

Roman law, ignorance of the law is no ground for avoiding the consequences of an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act . So far as regards criminal offences, the maxim as to ignorantia See also:

• JURIS

juris admits of no exception, even in the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case of a foreigner temporarily in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England, who is likely to be ignorant of English law . In Roman law the harshness of the See also:

• RULE

rule was mitigated in the case of See also:

• WOMEN

women, soldiers and persons under the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of twenty-five, unless they had See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good legal See also:

• ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice within reach (Dig. xxii . 6 . 9) . Ignorance of a See also:

• MATTER

matter of fact may in See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general be alleged in avoidance of the consequences of acts and agreements, but such ignorance cannot be pleaded where it is the See also:

• DUTY (from " due," that which is owing, O. Fr. deu, dil, past participle of devoir; Lat. debere, debitum; cf. " debt ")

duty of a See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person to know, or where, having the means of know-ledge at his disposal, he wilfully or negligently fails to avail himself of it (see See also:

• CONTRACT
• CONTRACT (Lat. contract us, from contrahere, to draw together, to bind)

CONTRACT) . In See also:

• LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

logic, ignorance is that state of mind which for want of See also:

• EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence is equally unable to affirm or deny one thing or another . Doubt, on the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, can neither affirm nor deny because the evidence seems equally strong for both .

For Ignoratio Elenchi (ignorance of the refutation) see See also:

• FALLACY (Lat. fall-ax, apt to mislead)

FALLACY .