"There is no presumption in this country that every person knows the law: it would be contrary to common sense and reason if it were so."
— Presumptions

January 1, 1970

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William Henry Maule, J., Martindale v. Falkner (1846), 2 C. B. 720, and characterised by Blackburn, J., in The Queen v. Mayor of Tewkesbury, L. R. 3 Q. B. 629.