here's three weird laws from English History one slander if you were found guilty of slander in Norman England Not only would you be required to pay damages to the victim but you'd also have to stand in the Town Square holding your nose to inform the towns folk of your heinous crime this is mainly because William the Conqueror was tired of being bleeded for being born out wedlock and made it illegal for people to call him William the bastard two blowing your nose in public in the town of New Market it was illegal to blow your
nose in the street horse racing in the town had become so popular and made so much money that the powers that be had to put in place laws to protect the valuable horses from anything that could cause them harm including the common cold which they can't actually catch from humans three the window tax the phrase daylight robbery comes from an English tax law from 1696 it aimed to tax the rich and the poor fairly by making people pay tax for every window they had in their home but all this meant was that poor people ried
up the few Windows they did have leaving them without sunlight or fresh air despite being so unpopular the window tax law remained in place until 1851
