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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. "
Table Talk: Being the Discourses - Page 74
by John Selden - 1786 - 163 pages
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Table-talk

John Selden - 1868 - 132 pages
...Ignorance of the Law excufes no man, not that * all Men know the Law, but becaufe 'tis an excufe every r! man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. 3. The King of Spain was out-law'd in WejlminjlerHall, I being of Council againft him. A Merchant had...
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 1

1870 - 546 pages
...Seldon, in " Table Talk," has an interesting section on law, in which the most striking observation is: "Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all men know the law, but because "tia an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him." REAUMONT AND FLETCHER....
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Albany Law Journal, Volume 1

1870 - 546 pages
...Seiden, in " Table Talk," has an interesting section on law, in which the most striking observation is: ower, exclud 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can teU how to confute him." BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER....
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Adversaria, ana

Adversaria - 1873 - 218 pages
...trial, and have me punished for this you lay to my charge, prove it against me. — Selden. THE LAW. IGNORANCE of the law excuses no man; not that all...will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. — Selden. A BOOK HUNTER. MY poor nephew, Lord , was deranged. The first symptom that appeared was,...
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Good, bad, and indifferent, a book of jests

Percival Keane (pseud.) - 1873 - 128 pages
...damnation for half-an-hour, that he might do justice to the people of France. IGNORANCE OF THE LAW. — 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. — Seldan. How is it...
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Short Sayings of Great Men: With Historical and Explanatory Notes

Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 pages
...both gone ; one remains not without the other: so 'tis betwixt faith and works. — Faith and Works. Ignorance of the law excuses no man : not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every one will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. — Law. Verse proves nothing...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...the earth. — <Sir Thomas Browne. Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees. — Milton. Ignorance of the law excuses no man ; not that all...will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. — Selden. Law should be like death, which spares no one. — Montesquieu. To go to law, is for two...
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English Belles-lettres from A.D. 907 to 1834 ...

1901 - 436 pages
...will bring me to a trial, and have me punished for this you lay to my charge, prove it against me.» 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. The King of Spain was outlawed...
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English Belles-lettres: From A. D. 901 to 1834

Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh - 1901 - 432 pages
...will bring me to a trial, and have me punished for this you lay to my charge, prove it against me.» 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. The King of Spain was outlawed...
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Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ...

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 becanse 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him. Law. No man is...
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