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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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
French-American culture in San Francisco (10 P) Pages in category "French-American culture in California" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
The lois scélérates ("villainous laws") – a pejorative name – were a set of three French laws passed from 1893 to 1894 under the Third Republic (1870–1940) that restricted the 1881 freedom of the press laws, after several bombings and assassination attempts carried out by anarchist proponents of "propaganda of the deed".
In the United States, parents are free to give their offspring any name they want — whether it's Apple, Blue Ivy, or even North. In Denmark, however, there's a list of about 7,000 government ...
If you're traveling to Italy this summer, beware that laws in this boot-shaped country are city-specific and include restrictions on building sandcastles, feeding pigeons and kissing in a moving car.
Check out the slideshow above to discover nine weird, funny and absurd but true food laws. More From Kitchen Daily: Six Weird Food Tours in America Why Gazpacho Isn't Taxed: And Other Weird Food Taxes
French colonial law refers to the segment of French law historically practiced within the French colonial empire. This colonial law [ fr ; de ] was designed under the premise of a "civilizing mission," but in practice, it often entailed discriminatory treatment of colonized populations [ citation needed ] .
In 1977 and 1979, several petitions were signed by a number of prominent French intellectuals, doctors, and psychologists calling for reforms to or the abolition of the French age-of-consent law. A January 1977 petition published in Le Monde criticized the Affaire de Versailles [ fr ] —the detention of three men arrested for sex offences ...