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Post by Cromwell on Oct 9, 2016 8:08:54 GMT
If you are male aged between 15 and 40 years, living in the UK you most probably have broken the law this morning!
Did you, after Church do an hours archery practice at the village/town butts. If not you broke the law!
This law has never been taken off the statute book. Probably just in case we need to teach our French cousins another short sharp lesson!
I believe it was passed by Henry IV.
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Post by davidconstable on Oct 9, 2016 10:09:30 GMT
The odd laws that occur where at one time being taken from the statute book slowly.
From memory it is not that long ago that pressganging was removed.
I might be wrong, but I think it is still on the local statutes in Berwick-upon-Tweed? about killing Scotsmen found within the city walls after dark.
David Constable
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Post by Piyan Glupak on Oct 9, 2016 11:43:15 GMT
My impression is that the one about having to practice archery every Sunday has been taken off the ststute book within the last couple of decades. Having said that, I have only once spent part of a Sunday practising archery.
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Post by Cromwell on Oct 9, 2016 12:56:48 GMT
My impression is that the one about having to practice archery every Sunday has been taken off the ststute book within the last couple of decades. Having said that, I have only once spent part of a Sunday practising archery. Your off the hook either way then sir! |
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Post by Haardrada on Oct 9, 2016 14:40:02 GMT
Does practice with a firearm grant you any dispensation?😆
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Post by Cromwell on Oct 9, 2016 19:40:34 GMT
Does practice with a firearm grant you any dispensation?😆 Interesting point, have to get back to you on that, check the facts don't want to go off half cock  |
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Post by jdesmond on Oct 10, 2016 4:11:43 GMT
'Twas told, when I was young, that the (unenforced) Pennsylvania statutes forbade driving an automobile on Sunday except to and from church. Not sure if that's still on the books...
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Post by Cromwell on Oct 11, 2016 6:55:43 GMT
A black London Cab is granted a Hackney Carriage License. The Cab driver must by law have a bale of hay in the boot for the horse.
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Post by davidconstable on Oct 11, 2016 15:44:06 GMT
One of the problems with English law is that it is case law.
Case law means you can use the Doomsday book (1086AD) in court, or health and safety can quote a court case 200 years old. To alter a law needs a re-write.
I have often wondered if the law preventing women smoking in public still applies in New York (USA).
David Constable
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Post by hammurabi70 on Oct 30, 2016 12:15:56 GMT
If you are male aged between 15 and 40 years, living in the UK you most probably have broken the law this morning! Did you, after Church do an hours archery practice at the village/town butts. If not you broke the law! This law has never been taken off the statute book. Probably just in case we need to teach our French cousins another short sharp lesson! I believe it was passed by Henry IV. Repealed in either 1863 (Statute Law Revision Act (26 & 27 Vict.c.125)) or 1960 (Betting and Gaming Act (1960 c.60)[!!!]) but I am not legally qualified. |
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Post by adrian on Oct 31, 2016 3:01:37 GMT
I am fairly certain this did not survive the Colonial Laws Validity Act 1865 in its application to New South Wales.
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