sufficiently declared as he may know it if he will, nor the action against the law of Nature, the ignorance is a good excuse: in other cases ignorance of the civil law excuseth not.
Ignorance of the sovereign power in the place of a man’s ordinary residence excuseth him not, because he ought to take notice of the power by which he hath been protected there.
Ignorance of the penalty, where the law is declared, excuseth no man; for in breaking the law, which, without a fear of penalty to follow, were not a law, but vain words, he undergoeth the penalty, though he know not what it is; because whosoever voluntarily doth any action, accepteth all the known consequences of it; but punishment is a known consequence of the violation of the laws in every commonwealth, which punishment, if it be determined already by the law, he is subject to that; if not, then he is subject to arbitrary punishment. For it is reason that he which does injury without other limitation than that of his own will, should suffer punishment without other limitation than that of his will whose law is thereby violated.