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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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
The "Head and Master" laws were a set of American property laws that permitted a husband to have final say regarding all household decisions and jointly owned property without his wife's knowledge or consent. In 1979, Louisiana became the final state to repeal them. Until then, the matter of who paid for property or whose name was on the deed ...
Due to these costs associated with lawsuit abuse, more than 40,500 jobs are lost annually statewide, affecting the ability of Louisiana residents to afford basic essentials and impacting the state ...
The Louisiana Revised Statutes (R.S.) contain a significant amount of legislation, arranged in titles or codes. [2] Apart from this, the Louisiana Civil Code forms the core of private law, [3] the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure (C.C.P.) governs civil procedure, the Louisiana Code of Criminal Procedure (C.Cr.P.) governs criminal procedure, the Louisiana Code of Evidence governs the law of ...
As in the rest of the country, Louisiana’s fentanyl drug-related deaths have drastically increased over the years — from fewer than 200 in 2017 to nearly 1,000 in 2021, according to data from ...
The law came about as a response to a particular case in Texas involving Louisiana Sen. Thomas Pressly’s sister Catherine Herring, whose husband was accused of slipping abortion pills into her ...
The Louisiana Civil Code (LCC) constitutes the core of private law in the State of Louisiana. [1] The Louisiana Civil Code is based on a more diverse set of sources than the laws of the other 49 states of the United States: substantive law between private sector parties has a civil law character, based on the French civil code and Spanish codes and ultimately Roman law, with some common law ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Starting in 2025, Louisiana residents and businesses will see significant changes as dozens of new state laws take effect. From tightening voting regulations to ...