article · Issue No. 1, January 1951 · p. 48 p. 49

Strange Laws in the Land of Wonders

من غرائب القوانين في بلاد الغرائب

In the codes of the nations there is much that appears exceedingly strange and invites disapproval and jest. And among the internal laws adopted by the various states in America are laws that remain sacred, laws that students of law still study and learn by heart, because their application was necessary once upon a time, and they have stayed inscribed in the books. In this they are like some of our own social traditions: they have lived on, and we still act by them, for no reason except that they were needed in some remote age and our fathers and grandfathers handed them down to us, and we took them, faults and all.

Among those strange American laws are the following:

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