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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laws, legal oddities, or legal curiosities, are laws that are perceived to be useless, humorous or obsolete, or are no longer applicable (in regard to current culture or modern law).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 law is named after bank robber Willie Sutton, who when asked why he robbed banks, is claimed to have answered "Because that's where the money is." Swanson's law: solar cell prices fall 20% for every doubling of solar cell industry manufacturing capacity. The law is named after SunPower Corporation founder Richard Swanson.
The capital gains tax exclusion for primary residences hasn’t changed since 1997. The dramatic gains in home values mean this tax law is worsening the housing crisis.
In law, desuetude (/ d ɪ ˈ sj uː ɪ tj uː d, ˈ d ɛ s w ɪ-/; from French désuétude, from Latin desuetudo 'outdated, no longer custom') is a doctrine that causes statutes, similar legislation, or legal principles to lapse and become unenforceable by a long habit of non-enforcement or lapse of time.
People love making laws about drinking almost as much as other people love drinking. Some have been overturned. Some were never real. And some of these laws go on today.
Independent contractors choose when and where they want to work and which jobs to do, but our outdated laws discourage companies from offering benefits to those workers. There is a better path.
Ptolemy's law of refraction, replaced by Snell's law. Luminiferous aether – failed to be detected by the sufficiently sensitive Michelson–Morley experiment, made obsolete by Einstein's work. Caloric theory – Lavoisier's successor to phlogiston, discredited by Rumford's and Joule's work. Contact tension – a theory on the source of ...
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