Pete Daoust
Ignorant of fact vs Ignorance of Law.... Ignorance of fact, is the want of knowledge as to the fact in question. It would be an error resulting from ignorance of a fact, if a man BELEIVED a certain woman to be unmarried and free, when in fact, she was a married woman; and were he to marry her under that BELIEF, he would not be criminally responsible. Ignorance of the laws of a foreign government, or of another state; is ignorance of a fact. for the difference between ignorance of law and ignorance of fact