Legal Definition and Related Resources of Knowledge

The perception of the mind as to facts, information and intelligence. Utley v Hill. As an element of a criminal offense, awareness of those facts which are essential to the unlawfulness of the act alleged as criminal. Within the meaning of a clause of an insurance policy for voiding the contract upon thecommencement of foreclosure proceedings “with the knowledge of the insured”: actual knowledge or actual notice. It has been generally held that under a fidelity bond or policy providing for notice of loss within a specified time after the insured has “knowledge of,” “learned of,” “discovered,” or “become aware of” a loss or a dishonest act, the insured is not required to act respecting the notice provision until he has actual knowledge of the loss or dishonest act. See current knowledge, actual notice; guilty knowledge; notice.

Acquaintance with facts; state of being aware of something or of possessing information ; scope of information. Farmliarity gained by actual experience, practical skill, technical acquaintance and also act of state of understanding, clear perception of fact or truth , cognition.

Positive assurance of a fact. It is not synonymous with information, 21 Pac. 39, or notice, 1 So. 777, and differs from belief in degree. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact; that which is or may be known. Acquainted with things ascertained or ascertainable; specific information, 28 Ind. App. 367; a firm belief, 9 Gray (Mass.) 271. It implies actual notice as distinguished from constructive notice. 176 Iowa 316. Believe; to exercise trust or confidence; to be persuaded upon evidence, arguments and deductions, or by other circumstances other than personal knowledge. 28 Ind. App. 367.

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Vocabularies (Semantic Web Information)

(Awareness), noun

• acquaintance
• apperception
• appreciation
• appreciativeness
• cognition
• cognizance
• comprehension
• consciousness
• discernment
• enlightenment
• familiarity
• grasp
• information
• intellection
• intelligence
• ken
• knowhow
• mindfulness
• perception
• perceptiveness
• percipience
• realization
• recognition
• understanding Associated Concepts: actual knowledge
• actual notice
• common knowledge
• constructive knowledge
• discovery
• full knowledge
• guilty knowledge
• implied knowledge
• imputed knowledge
• judicial notice
• knowledge sufficient to form a belief
• scienter

(Learning), noun

• erudition
• expertise
• familiarity
• familiarization
• information
• ken
• knowhow
• mastery
• proficiency
• scholarship
• scientia
• skill
• study
• wisdom foreign phrases: Idem est scire aut scire debet aut potuisse
• To be bound to know or to be able to know is the same as to know
• Lex neminem cogit ostendere quod nescire praesumitur
• The law compels no one to divulge that which he is presumed not to know
• Scienti et volenti non fit injuria
• A wrong is not done to a person who understands and consents
• Ignorantia praesumitur ubi scientia non probatur
• Ignorance is presumed where knowledge is not proved
• Ignorantia facti
• Ignorance of facts excuses; ignorance of law does not excuse
• Scientia utrimque par pares contrahentesfacit
• Equal knowledge on both sides makes the contracting parties equal

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Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of knowledge.

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Legal English Vocabulary: Knowledge in Spanish

Online translation of the English legal term knowledge into Spanish: conocimiento (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.

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• Law Enforcement Officer
• Police Work
• Law Enforcement Agency

Further Reading

• knowledge in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
• knowledge in the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement
• A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis