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Dictionary Results for scienter:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

scienter
    adv 1: (law) deliberately or knowingly

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Scienter \Sci*en"ter\, adv. [L.] (Law)
   Knowingly; willfully. --Bouvier.
   [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

SCIENTER, knowingly. 
     2. A man may do many acts which are justifiable or not, as he is 
ignorant or not ignorant of certain facts. He may pass a counterfeit coin, 
when he is ignorant of its being counterfeit, and is guilty of no offence; 
but if he knew the coin to be counterfeit, which is called the scienter, he 
is guilty of passing counterfeit money. A man who keeps an animal which 
injures some person, or his property, is answerable for damages, or in some 
cases he may be indicted if he had a knowledge of such animal's propensity 
to do injury. 3 Blackst. Comm. 154; 2 Stark. Ev. 178; 4 Campb. 198; 2 Str. 
1264; 2 Esp. 482;  Bull. N. P. 77; Burr. 2092; 2 Lev. 172; Lord Raym. 110; 2 
B. & A. 620; 2 C. M. & R. 496; 5 C. & P. 1; S. C. 24 E. C. L. R. 187; 1 
Leigh, N. P. 552, 553; 7 C. & P. 755. 
     4. In this respect the civil law agrees with our own. Domat, Lois Civ. 
liv. 2, t. 8, s. 2. As to what evidence maybe given to prove guilty 
knowledge, see Archb. Cr. Pl. 109. Vide Animal; Dog.

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