Excuse
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
A reason for doing or not doing a thing.
Excusable. 1.
Admitting of excuse; exempting from liability or responsibility: as, an excusable default, an excusable misdelivery by a carrier.
2.
Done under circumstances of accident or necessity, and without legal malice: as, an excusable homicide, q. v. Ignorance of a fact may excuse; ignorance of the law never excuses. Infants, lunatics, married women, and persons under duress or necessity are sometimes excused for acts done or sought to be enforced.
See Ignorance; Knowledge, 1; Notice.