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IGNORAMUS (Latin for " we do not know," " we take no notice of ")

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 294 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: I27-INV
IGNORAMUS (Latin for " we do not know," " we take no notice of ") , properly an English law
term
  for the endorsement on the bill of indictment made by a grand jury when they " throw out " the bill, i.e. when they do not consider that the case should go to a
petty
  jury. The expression is now obsolete, " not a true bill," " no bill," being used. The expressions " ignoramus jury," " ignoramus Whig," &c., were common in the political satires and pamphlets of the years following on the throwing out of the bill for high treason against the 2nd
earl
  of Shaftesbury in 1681. The application of the
term
  to an ignorant person
dates
  from the early
part
  of the 17th century. The New English Dictionary quotes two examples illustrating the early connexion of the term with the law or lawyers. George Ruggle (15751622) in 1615 wrote a Latin play with the title Ignoramus, the name being also that of the
chief
  character in it, intended for one Francis Brakin, the recorder of
Cambridge
 . It is a
satire
  against the ignorance and pettifogging of the common lawyers of the day. It was answered by a
prose
 
tract
  (not printed till 1648) by one Robert Callis, serjeant-at-law. This bore the title of The Case and Argument against Sir Ignoramus of
Cambridge
 .


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