 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...ibid. Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide. Judgments. Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. Law. Xo man is the wiser... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...abide. Judgment*. Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. Law. No man is the wiser for his learning. Learning. Wit and wisdom are born with a man.... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - Law - 1906 - 494 pages
...Talk (Temple Classics, p. 72) explains the policy of the rule a little differently, saying : — ' Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. " ' ' [1905] 1 KB 253.... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1906 - 1198 pages
...abide. Judgment». Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. Law. No man is the wiser for his learning. Learning. Wit and wisdom are born with a man.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 788 pages
...liberty ; they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — JO Holland. ts a man is born, so be be a rnaii of merit, — Horaat. The glory of ancestors sheds a light around p ninn will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. — Seiden. Of all the parts of a law, the... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 772 pages
...they define every man's rights, and defend the individual liberties of all men. — J. 0. HoUb.nd. Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the l:i\v, but because it is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. —... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - Jury - 1912 - 102 pages
...the law excuses no one are these : i. " The reason for the maxim is that of necessity. It prevails, not that all men know the law, but because it is an excuse which every man will make, and no man can tell how to confute him." The reason impliedly admits that... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - Authors, English - 1917 - 690 pages
...content to hear." " Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide." " Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him." " Thou little thinkest... | |
 | JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pages
...ibid. Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide. Judgments. Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, bub because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. Law. No man... | |
 | Frank Johnston - Analytical jurisprudence - 1925 - 376 pages
...this erroneous idea of law in mind John Selden (Selden's Table-Talk) explains the maxim in this way: "Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead and no man can tell how to confute him." This explanation does... | |
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Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. 
