Lat. Ignorance; want of knowledge. Distinguished, from mistake, (error,) or wrong conception. Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 178; Dig. 22, 6. Divided by Lord Coke into ignorantia facti (ignorance of fact) and ignorantia juris, (ignorance of law.) And the former, he adds, is twofold.—lec-tionis et lingua, (Ignorance of reading and ignorance of language.) 2 Coke, 3b
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
