Public Prosecutor vs Devireddi Nagi Reddi on 23 March, 1962
32. The learned Advocate-General also suggested that on the principle "actus curiae nerninem gravabit", i.e., an act of the Court shall prejudice no man, the learned Judge might, or a proper application being made to him Under Section 561-A rectify the error committed by him, He also contended that the Judge must be presumed to have known the law as laid down by the Full Bench five months earlier in (supra) on the basis of the maxim that "every man must be taken to know the law." This maxim has been repeatedly denounced by the Judges of the English Courts.