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IMPERITIA

Lat. Unskillfulness; want of skill.
Imperitia culpae annumeratur. Want of skill is reckoned as culpa; that is, as blamable conduct or neglect Dig. 50, 17, 132.
Imperitia est maxima mechanicorum poena. Unskillfulness is the greatest punishment of mechanics; [that is, from its effect in making them liable to those by whom they are employed.! 11 Coke, 54a. The word “poena” in some translations is erroneously rendered “fault”

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