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It is illegal for taxi drivers to carry rabid dogs or corpses.
A taxi driver must ask passengers if they are suffering from plague or smallpox.
A member of the House of Commons is not allowed to resign his seat.
However, if one wants to leave the post, he applies for (and is automatically granted) the Stewardship of the Aylesbury Hundred, which is a job with no duties or pay but which makes him ineligible for membership of Parliament.
Anyone entering the Houses of Parliament while wearing a suit of armour is liable to be arrested.
Any whale washed up on the shore is the property of the Queen, so she can use its bones for her corset.
In Hereford you can shoot a Welsh person on a Sunday, with a longbow, in the Cathedral Close.
You can shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow in Chester, inside the city walls and after midnight.
It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.
A bed may not be hung out of a window.
It is illegal for a lady to eat chocolates on a public conveyance.
It is illegal to be drunk on licenced premises.
Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end may be sentenced to 24 hours in the stocks.
Any boy under the age of 10 may not see a naked mannequin.
It is illegal to eat mince pies on December 25.
(Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas pudding, mince pies and anything to do with gluttony. That law has never been rescinded so mince pies are illegal.)
In London it is illegal to hail a taxi while suffering from bubonic plague.
It is illegal to go within 100 yards of the Queen when not wearing socks
A taxi driver must ask passengers if they are suffering from plague or smallpox.
A member of the House of Commons is not allowed to resign his seat.
However, if one wants to leave the post, he applies for (and is automatically granted) the Stewardship of the Aylesbury Hundred, which is a job with no duties or pay but which makes him ineligible for membership of Parliament.
Anyone entering the Houses of Parliament while wearing a suit of armour is liable to be arrested.
Any whale washed up on the shore is the property of the Queen, so she can use its bones for her corset.
In Hereford you can shoot a Welsh person on a Sunday, with a longbow, in the Cathedral Close.
You can shoot a Welsh person with a bow and arrow in Chester, inside the city walls and after midnight.
It is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle.
A bed may not be hung out of a window.
It is illegal for a lady to eat chocolates on a public conveyance.
It is illegal to be drunk on licenced premises.
Any person found breaking a boiled egg at the sharp end may be sentenced to 24 hours in the stocks.
Any boy under the age of 10 may not see a naked mannequin.
It is illegal to eat mince pies on December 25.
(Oliver Cromwell banned Christmas pudding, mince pies and anything to do with gluttony. That law has never been rescinded so mince pies are illegal.)
In London it is illegal to hail a taxi while suffering from bubonic plague.
It is illegal to go within 100 yards of the Queen when not wearing socks
