With this is sometimes coupled another maxim: ignorantia facti excusat ("ignorance of the fact excuses").
So far as regards criminal offences, the maxim as to ignorantia juris admits of no exception, even in the case of a foreigner temporarily in England, who is likely to be ignorant of English law.
This became the famous maxim of law,--'Ignorantia facti excusat, ignorantiajuris non excusat.
After enumerating other errors on sin he concludes: “Talia et similia portenta orta sunt ex inscitia et ignorantia peccati et Christi Servatoris nostri, suntque vere et mere ethnica dogmata, quæ tolerare non possumus.
Ignorantia juris non excusat is, therefore, a principle of our jurisprudence, as it is of the Roman, from which it is derived.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ignorantia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
