Ignorant - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: ignorantIgnorance of law is no excuse
Ignorance of law is no excuse, The maxim 'ignor-ance of law is no excuse' cannot be carried to the extent of saying that every person must be presumed to know that a piece of legislation enacted by a legislature if competent jurisdiction must be held to be invalid, in case it prescribes a differential treatment, and he must therefore, refuse to submit to it or incur the peril of the bar of waiver being raised against him, Basheshar Nath v. CIT, AIR 1959 SC 149 (172)....
Ignore
Ignore, to throw out a bill of indictment.Ignore, means to refuse to notice, recognise, or consider. To reject as groundless, to no bill, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 750....
Ignorance
The condition of being ignorant the lack of knowledge in general or in relation to a particular subject the state of being uneducated or uninformed...
Ignorantly
In a ignorant manner without knowledge inadvertently...
Ignore
To be ignorant of or not acquainted with...
Self ignorance
Ignorance of ones own character powers and limitations...
Self ignorant
Ignorant of ones self...
Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia juris non excusat
Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantia juris non excusat. (Ignorance of the fact excuses; ignorance of the law excuses not.) The maxim is often cited simply as Ignorantia legis [or juris] neminem excusat. Therefore, first, money paid with full knowledge of the facts, but through ignorance of the law, is not recoverable if there be nothing against conscience in retaining it; and, secondly, money paid in ignor-ance of the facts is recoverable, provided there have been no laches in the party paying it. See MISTAKE. In criminal cases this maxim applies, as if a man should think he has a right to kill a person excommunicated or outlawed wherever he meets him and does so, this is murder. But a mistake of fact is an excuse, as where a man, intending to kill a thief or house-breaker in his own house, by mistake kills one of his own family, this is no criminal action; see 4 Bl. Com 27. Consult Broom's Leg. Max....
Ignoramus
We are ignorant we ignore being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill The phrase now used is ldquoNo billrdquo ldquoNo true billrdquo or ldquoNot foundrdquo though in some jurisdictions ldquoIgnoredrdquo is still used...
Ignoramus
Ignoramus (we are ignorant). The word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grant jury when they rejected it: the phrase now used is: 'not a true bill,' or 'not found'; or the jury are said to 'ignore' the bill....
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