[blml] Ignorantia juris non excusat

[Wayne Burrows]

On 23/07/07, Jerry Fusselman <jfusselman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/07, Wayne Burrows <wjburrows at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > This is the dictionary definition that I think of when I see
> > 'understanding' in this context "a mutual agreement, esp. of a
> > private, unannounced, or tacit kind" which has more similarities to
> > 'agreement' than 'experience'.  In fact it is almost synonymous with
> > 'agreement'.
> >
>
> Please don't think of the definition that is synonymous with
> agreement---this one is probably #3 or #4 in a short dictionary.  I
> was suggesting "understanding" to be different from agreement---not a
> synonym.  Please think of definition #1 in your dictionary, which is
> probably synonymous with comprehension.  That is, please use a
> definition that corresponds more closely to "understand" than "agree."
>

Strange.  When I look up "agreements" in the index of the lawbook it
says "see understandings".

I think the writers were thinking that these two words were more
synonymous than you think.

And further in the section under "understandings" in the index there
are references to L75 which talks about "agreements" not
"understandings".

Wayne