English statutes cleaned up
Posted
Thursday, March 20, 2008 2:56 PM
by
John Nann
In the UK, Parliament takes an axe to the laws to eliminate the archaic and obsolete laws. Article here:
"Legal clean-out purges old laws
By Michael Peel, Legal Correspondent
Published: March 19 2008 03:50 | Last updated: March 19 2008 03:50
Hundreds
of allegedly obsolete laws on subjects ranging from the East India
Company to servants who impersonate their masters would be scrapped
under plans before parliament.
The Ministry of Justice said the
pruning of “meaningless and defunct laws” would remove all or part of
328 acts of parliament, although it will leave in force legal oddities
such as the rights of British monarchs to the heads and tails of whales
caught off the country’s shores."
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