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Strange laws, also called weird laws, dumb laws, futile laws, unusual laws, unnecessary laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law). A number of books and websites purport to list dumb laws.
This is a list of examples of Jim Crow laws, which were state, territorial, and local laws in the United States enacted between 1877 and 1965. Jim Crow laws existed throughout the United States and originated from the Black Codes that were passed from 1865 to 1866 and from before the American Civil War.
Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives. This article lists notable banned books and works, giving a ...
A Son of Sam law (American English; also known as a notoriety-for-profit law) is a law designed to keep criminals from profiting from the publicity of their crimes; for instance, by selling their stories to publishers. Such laws often authorize the state to seize money earned from deals such as book/film biographies and paid interviews and use ...
Daniel Radcliffe stars in the fictitious biopic 'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' about the famous parody singer. Here's when and where you can stream it. The Weird Al Biopic Is Free to Watch Right Now
Thus ugly laws were methods by which lawmakers attempted to remove the poor from sight. [3]: 31–32 Laws similar to Chicago's followed in Denver, Colorado, and Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1889. At some time from 1881 to 1890 an ugly law was enacted in Omaha, Nebraska. [10] Additionally, ugly laws were sparked by the Panic of 1893.
1863 painting of a man reading the Emancipation Proclamation.. Educators and slaves in the South found ways to both circumvent and challenge the law. John Berry Meachum, for example, moved his school out of St. Louis, Missouri when that state passed an anti-literacy law in 1847, and re-established it as the Floating Freedom School on a steamship on the Mississippi River, which was beyond the ...
The first episode featured a very strange (and gross) story of a Florida man who enlisted the help of another Florida man to help him fulfill his wildest fantasy of having some of his toes eaten ...