2006-07-08 21:20:10 · 4 answers · asked by eyes 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
Ignorance of the Law is not an excuse
2006-07-08 21:23:45 · answer #1 · answered by sxa93 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
« Bonae mentis soror est paupertas.
In casu extremae necessitatis omnia sunt communia »
Ignorantia legis neminem excusat.
Ignorantia legis neminem excusat.
(Legal)
Ignorance of the law excuses no one.
(pron = ig-noh-RAHN-tee-ah LAY-ghis NEH-mih-nehm eks-KOO-saht)
Comment: I heard this a lot when I was growing up, especially after I began to drive. One day while riding with my cousin on a rainy afternoon, his application of the brakes resulted in very little slowing down on the wet street. We shot through the intersection and smashed into another car. Fortunately, no one was hurt beyond bruises. Two cars were totaled.
My father and my cousin’s father, brothers, had plenty to say, and while we had broken no “laws” this saying was quoted more than once in the aftermath. What my father wanted me to know, as I defended my cousin’s driving, is that “everyone knows that when it’s raining you cannot drive the speed limit!” The speed limit on that street had been 40 MPH, and that’s pretty much what my cousin was doing when we slid through the stop sign.
Laws, both those on the books and those that “everybody knows” (except for 16 year olds) in their best light serve the common good. ”Everybody knows” because everyone has a stake in being safe (road rules), or in building infrastructure and maintaining services (tax laws), or in protecting the vulnerable (child protective services, immigration laws, descrimination laws).
What I don’t know not only may hurt me, but it may hurt you, too. I love my individual freedoms as a free citizen of one of the freest lands on the earth. But, my freedom, what I know and don’t know, touch your life–and yours, mine.
Bob Patrick
2006-07-14 23:35:45 · answer #2 · answered by vishal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Literally, "ignorance of the law is no excuse." In other words, just because you don't know what the law is doesn't mean its okay for you to break it.
2006-07-08 21:25:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Latin for "Ignorance of the law is no excuse," a principle with which I wholeheartedly disagree.
2006-07-08 21:24:17 · answer #4 · answered by Zombie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋