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    WHERE, WHEN, AND WHO YOU CAN MURDER IN ENGLAND

    British law goes back thousands of years, and periodically Parliament tries to weed out the weirder stuff, but generally justices fall back on what’s called “implied repeal,” meaning that while technically still on the books, a certain law is so nonsensical that it is semi-officially considered no longer functional.

    This is cold comfort to a Welsh citizen in the city of Hereford on Sunday or within the ancient walls of Chester after midnight, two situations when it is technically legal (under municipal byelaws) to kill them with a longbow. Less certain is the status of a Scotsman carrying a bow and arrow in York, who many sources believe is still legally killable even though the law saying so appears to have been officially repealed or at least lost over time.