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That's been the practice since Roman times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
by aeontech 13y ago
That's been the practice since Roman times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
- Gormo 13y agoThat was a reasonable principle up to about a century ago, when statutory law started growing out of control and drowning out other more stable and sensible sources of law. When legislatures churn out volumes and volumes of bills every single year, "ignorantia juris non excusat" non excusat. On top of that, what ever happened to mens rea being a necessary element of culpability? Why are all of these malum prohibitum laws strict liability offences?
- aeontech 13y agoKafka wrote something about that ;)