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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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
In November 1965, while Sukarno was still technically in power, the Minister of Elementary Education and Culture for Technical Education banned a list of seventy books, and the army closed down more than 160 newspapers. [27] [35] [39] The 1963 decree continued to be used to criminalize and censor printed works in the New Order. [35]
The Laws of Life: Halliday Sutherland: 1935 Non-fiction Banned in the Irish Free State for discussing sex education and Calendar-based contraceptive methods – even though The Laws of Life had been granted a Cum permissu superiorum endorsement by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster. [169] Honourable Estate: Vera Brittain: 1936 Novel
Law of Indonesia is based on a civil law system, intermixed with local customary law and Dutch law.Before European presence and colonization began in the sixteenth century, indigenous kingdoms ruled the archipelago independently with their own custom laws, known as adat (unwritten, traditional rules still observed in the Indonesian society). [1]
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Coined by Dr. Laurence J. Peter (1919–1990) in his book The Peter Principle. In his follow-up book, The Peter Prescription, he offered possible solutions to the problems his principle could cause. Planck's law, in physics, describes the spectral radiance of a black body at a given temperature. After Max Planck.
In which Munafri Arifuddin ran unopposed for mayor of Makassar, Indonesia, won more than 250,000 votes, and lost. Above Znoneofthe A Canadian politician who changed his name so that people would misread it as " none of the above " on the ballot (with the Z added to appear at the end of the list) and pick his name by mistake.
An Act to repeal the Stipulation of the "Emergency Act 1950 c. 2 Concerning the Publication of the State Gazette of the Republic of the United States of Indonesia and the Official Gazette of the Republic of the United States of Indonesia and Concerning Issues in Promulgating and the Commencement into Effect of Federal Laws and Government ...