Ignorantia

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.

I. Ignorance; quae quis scire tenetur which any one is held excusat: ignorance of rantia judicis [est] judge is the misfortune ignorance of the law; — excuse; — quod qnisqne rance of the [or a] law, no man. Ignorantia law excuses no man.

Ignorance; want of knowledge. Distinguished from mistake, (error,) or wrong conception. Mackeld, Rom. Law, § 178; Dig. 22, 6. Divided by Lord Coke into ignorantia facti (ignorance of fact} and tgnorantia juris, (igs norance of Jaw.) And the former, he adds, is twofold,—tlectionis et lingua, (ignorance of reading and ignorance of language.) 2 Coke, 3b. Ignorantia eorum ques quis scire tenetur non excusat, Ignorance of those things which one is bound to know excuses not. Hale, P. C. 42; Broom, Max. 267. Ignorantia facti excusat. Ignorance of fact excuses or isa ground of relief. 2 are voidable and relievabiein law and equity. 2 Kent, Comm. 491, and notes. Tgnorantia facti excusat, ignorantia juris non excusat. Isguorance of the fact excuses; ignorance of the law excuses not. livery man must be taken to be cognizant of the law; otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be carried. 1 Coke, 177; Broom, Max. 253, Ignorantia juris quod quisque tenetur scire, neminem excusat. Ignorance of the [or a] law, which every one is bound to know, excuses no man. A mistake in point of law is, in criminal cases, no sort of defense, 4 Bl. Comm. 27; 4 Steph. Comm. 81; Broom, Max. 258; 7 Car. & P. 456. And, in civil cases, ignorance of the law, with a full knowledge of the facts, furnishes no ground, either in law or equily, to rescind agreements, or reclaim money paid, or set aside solemn acts of the parties. 2 Kent, Comm. 491, and note, Ignorantia juris sui non prejudicat juri. Ignorance of one’s right does not prejudice the right. Lolft, 552. Ignorantia legis neminem excusat. Ignorance of law excuses no one. 4 Bouv, Inst. no. 3828; 1 Story, Eq. Jur. § 111; 7 Watts, 374.