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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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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.
There are also laws ascribed to individuals by others, such as Murphy's law; or given eponymous names despite the absence of the named person. Named laws range from significant scientific laws such as Newton's laws of motion, to humorous examples such as Murphy's law.
While many of these laws imposed by states are designed to keep citizens safe, others are weird, strange or just downright silly. And, believe it or not, you can get fined — or worse — for ...
Coulomb's law: Physics: Charles Augustin de Coulomb: Law of Charles and Gay-Lussac (frequently called Charles's law) Thermodynamics: Jacques Charles and Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac: Clifford's theorem Clifford's circle theorems: Algebraic geometry, Geometry: William Kingdon Clifford: Curie's law: Physics: Pierre Curie: Curie–Weiss law: Physics ...
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From 1867 to 1974, various cities of the United States had unsightly beggar ordinances, retroactively named ugly laws. [1] These laws targeted poor people and disabled people . For instance, in San Francisco a law of 1867 deemed it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or ...
The law requiring Congress to repeatedly raise the borrowing limit has become counterproductive and dangerous. Let's scrap it completely. America’s dumbest law [Video]
Murphy's law [a] is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.".. Though similar statements and concepts have been made over the course of history, the law itself was coined by, and named after, American aerospace engineer Edward A. Murphy Jr.; its exact origins are debated, but it is generally agreed it originated from Murphy and his team ...