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Latin: A term of logic, sometimes applied to pleadings and to arguments on appeal, which signifles a mistake of the question, that is, the mistake of one who, failing to discern the real question which he is to meet and answer, addresses his allegations or arguments to a collateral matter or something beside the point See Case upon the Statute for Distribution, Wythe (Va.) … [Read more...]

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1. To be ignorant of, or unacquainted with. 2. To disregard willfully; to refuse to recognize; to decline to take notice of. See Cleburne County v. Morton, 09 Ark. 48, 80 S. W. 307. 3. To reject as groundless, false or unsupported by evidence; as when a grand Jury ignores a bill of indictment. Ignoscitur ei qui sanguinem suum qualiter redemptum voluit. The law holds him excused … [Read more...]

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