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MistWing
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What is the name of your state? Nevada
I hope this is the right place to ask this. I can't figure out where else it should go.
I have always been curious about the phrase "Ignorance of the law is no excuse". Given that new laws are being created all the time and even professional lawyers can't know all of them, how can a citizen, untrained in the legal practise, be reasonably be expected to know them all (or, at least, those that would pertain to him/her)?
I mean, some laws are pretty obscure and non-obvious (Go out to the Dumb Law site and you'll see). And yet, we are expected to know these laws and, if we violate them, we can be charged.
Or is there a qualification to the phrase I'm unaware of?
Thanks
MistWing SilverTail
I hope this is the right place to ask this. I can't figure out where else it should go.
I have always been curious about the phrase "Ignorance of the law is no excuse". Given that new laws are being created all the time and even professional lawyers can't know all of them, how can a citizen, untrained in the legal practise, be reasonably be expected to know them all (or, at least, those that would pertain to him/her)?
I mean, some laws are pretty obscure and non-obvious (Go out to the Dumb Law site and you'll see). And yet, we are expected to know these laws and, if we violate them, we can be charged.
Or is there a qualification to the phrase I'm unaware of?
Thanks
MistWing SilverTail