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The Silliest Laws You’ll Break this Christmas

The Silliest Laws You’ll Break this Christmas

This is not a post about saving money, but it was too silly to pass up. MTA Solicitors have sent us a list of the craziest laws on the books that you might break this Christmas season.

  • Think twice before tucking into a mince pie on Christmas day. The most outrageous law revealed for the festive season: ‘mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas day’.  So, will we all have to stay clear of the mince pies on Christmas day?
  • Be carefully when you’re sending out your Christmas cards as “it is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British Monarch upside down”.
  • If you’re catching a cab home after the Christmas party don’t be surprised to hear the cab driver ask you if you have the plague. “Cab drivers must ask all passengers if they have small pox or the plague”.
  • Watch out for this over the Christmas period ‘In London, Freemen are allowed to take a flock of sheep across London Bridge without being charged a toll; they are also allowed to drive geese down Cheapside.’
  • Don’t forget your archery practice on Christmas Day! ‘In England, all men over the age of 14 must carry out two hours of longbow practice a day.’
  • “In Scotland, it is illegal to be drunk in possession of a cow”, so don’t take your cow out on the town to celebrate Hogmanay.

CEO David Green explains that the rule on eating mince pies actually stemmed from Oliver Cromwell who passed a law to ban Christmas pudding, mince pies and anything to do with gluttony. That law has never been repealed, so it’s true that mince pies are in fact illegal!

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One Response to “The Silliest Laws You’ll Break this Christmas”

  1. Mumsaves says:

    Ooh, I’ll definitely be more careful with my stamps from now on, but I’m afraid my yearly tradition of breaking the law by munching on mince pies and Christmas pudding will have to continue ;-)

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