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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 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)....


Self ignorant

Ignorant of ones self...


Self ignorance

Ignorance of ones own character powers and limitations...


Ignorantly

In a ignorant manner without knowledge inadvertently...


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...


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....


Precedent

Precedent, a decision is a precedent of its own features. Further, the enunciation of the reason or principle on which a question before a court has been decided is alone binding as a precedent, Uttaranchal Road Transport Corporation v. Mansaram Nainwal, (2000) 6 SCC 366.A precedent acquirers added authority from lapse of time, the longer a precedent has remained unquestioned, the more hard it becomes to reverse it. The courts has to adopt a construction of law, which would inevitably result in upsetting titles long founded on the contrary view, Pratap Bahadur Sahi v. Lakshmidhar Singh, AIR 1946 PC 189: 73 IA 231; Vijaya Charari v. Khubchand, AIR 1964 SC 1099.Precedent, are not an immutable dogma. Courts may evolve principles which are applicable to the facts involved in each case, Rumana Begum v. Government of Andhra Pradesh, 1992 Cr LJ 3512.Means every judgment must be based upon facts, declared by the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 to be relevant and duly proved. But when a Judge, in dec...


Per incuriam decision

Per incuriam decision, means through inadvertence. It happens when the Supreme Court acts in ignorance of a previous decision of its own or when a High Court acts in ignorance of a decision of the Supreme Court, Punjab Land Development and Reclamation Corporation Ltd. v. Presiding Officer, Labour Court, (1990) 3 SCC 682....


Per incuriam

Per incuriam, are those decisions given in ignorance or forgetfulness of some inconsistent (sic) statutory provision or of some authority binding on the court concerned, so that in such case some part of the decision or some step in the reasoning on which it is based, is found, on that account to be demonstr-ably wrong, A.R. Antulay v. R.S. Nayak, (1998) 2 SCC 602: 1988 SCC (Cri) 372.Per incuriam, through want of care. An order of the Court obviously made through some mistake or under some misapprehension is said to be made per incuriam.Incuria literally means 'carelessness'. In practice per incuriam appears to mean per ignoratium. English courts have developed this principle in relaxation of the rule of stare decisis. The 'quotable in law' is avoided and ignored if it rendered, 'in ignoratium of a statute or other binding authority', Young v. Bristol Aeroplance Co. Ltd., foll.; State of Uttar Pradesh v. Synthtics and Chemicals Ltd., (1991) 4 SCC 139 (162)....


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