Evasion
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
A subtle endeavoring to set aside truth or to escxpe the punishment of the law.
This will not be allowed
If one person says lo another that he will not strike him, but will give him a pot of ale to strike lirst, and, accordingly, the latter strikes, the returning the blow is punishable; and, if the person first striking is killed, it is murder, for no man shall evade the justice of the law by such a pretense.
1 Hawk. P. C. 81.
So no one may plead ignorance of the law to evade it.
Jacob.