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A Joke From The Past - A Law Known As Daylight Robbery

This could only happen in Britain and to be honest not a great deal has changed since the days of William The Third, this law came into force 1696 - Got To Pick A Pocket Or Two.

There must be strange laws around the Globe past and present it would be interesting to hear of some of them.

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ArishMell · 70-79, M

They would have been careful not to leave rooms with no daylight at all, as far as possible; but that might not have been possible in big homes with very many rooms having only one window each. It was repealed long ago of course, though without looking it up I don't know when.

I think you are right though that many countries still have laws that made sense in their day but are long obsolete, and if still nominally in force it's probably because they have been long superceded and forgotten.