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1 ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it
незнання закону не знімає відповідальності за його порушенняEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it
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2 ignorance
незнання; необізнаність, недосвідченість- ignorance of law -
3 _закон
always tell your doctor and your lawyer the truth fond of lawsuits, little wealth; fond of doctors, little health good laws spring from bad morals a good lawyer, a bad neighbor the greater the number of laws, the more thieves there will be ignorance of the law is no excuse for breaking it laws are silent when wars are waging laws catch flies, but let hornets go free laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed law-makers should not be law-breakers might goes before right necessity knows no law, but it is intimately acquainted with many lawyers not everything legally right is morally right one law for the rich and another for the poor possession is nine points of the law where law ends, tyranny begins
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