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knowing violation

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From 240 U.S. 541 - Jones National Bank v. Yates · 1916Most cited · 97 citing opinions

Congress did not make negligence the test of liability, but the fact that the act was violated knowingly, although there may be a violation 'in effect intentional,' and therefore within the statute, when one deliberately refuses to examine that which it is his duty to examine.