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Strange Laws 10:16 - Sep 23 with 525 viewsSTID2017

I guess there must be many antiquated laws in the UK and elsewhere ?
Just came across this one as an example
"If you have plans to take a walk with a plank of wood sometime soon, forget about it. According to Section 54 of the Metropolitan Police District Act 1839, it's illegal in the UK"

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Strange Laws on 11:05 - Sep 23 with 477 viewsonehunglow

I can recall several when I joined and many were drafted by the Town and Police clauses act 1847.
Its intention was to bring some order to the chaos of the time .
Many classes have been repealed but some remain,like allowing chimney fires or facilitating cock fighting .ive not seen many fighting cocks but I’ve had a sheltered life .

Or impounding cattle and selling them or releasing them .

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Strange Laws on 16:49 - Sep 23 with 417 viewshowenjack

There was a medieval bye law that made it legal to shoot a Welshman with a bow and arrow in the boundaries of Hereford Cathedral . Obviously relating back to the Marcher cross border raids of the 13 th century . I don't think it was repealed though.
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Strange Laws on 16:59 - Sep 23 with 398 viewsJoesus_Of_Narbereth

It was also illegal to throw shit and piss out of your window without first shouting “Gardyloo!”

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Strange Laws on 17:32 - Sep 23 with 376 viewsonehunglow

True and Cestrians don't like the Welsh at all even though many are born in the Countess

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Strange Laws on 18:11 - Sep 23 with 358 viewsJoesus_Of_Narbereth

Probably something to do with the fact the Welsh burned the first one down.

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Strange Laws on 18:56 - Sep 23 with 316 viewsKeithHaynes

Not allowed to beat a carpet in the street before 8am.

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Strange Laws on 19:34 - Sep 23 with 258 viewsonehunglow

Sone significant laws passed that lasted for decades ,remember learning the OAP 1861

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Strange Laws on 21:44 - Sep 24 with 118 viewsKeithHaynes

Any cutless, hangar or bludgeon 👍

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Strange Laws on 11:18 - Sep 25 with 38 viewsScotia

One strange "law" from the times of Henry 8th has just cost me over £50.

Apparently the house I'm in the process of buying is in a parish that Henry decided everyone who lived within it's boundaries had to pay to help repair the local church if it was damaged.

The mortgage company has insisted I have liability insurance in case it's ever enacted.

There was an attempt in the house of lords to revoke it a few years ago but it didn't make it through the process.
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