Ignorantia
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Ignorance; want of knowledge. Distinguished from mistake, error or wrong conception.
Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 165.
Divided in the civil law into ignorantia facti, ignornace of fact, and ignorantia juris, ignorance of law.
Dig. 22. 6.
Lord Coke adopts this division, adding that the former is twofold, — lectionis et linguae, ignorance of reading, and ignorance of language.
2 Coke, 3b.
IGNORANTIA EORUM QUAE QUIS scire tenetur non excusat. Ignorance of those things which every one is bound to know excuses not.
Hale, P. C. 42. See Tindal, C. J., 10 Clark & F. 210; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 245; 4 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 27.