Millard County Chronicle | 1913-08-14 | Page 1 | Shortest Statutes on Record.

Shortest Ststutcs en Record. The old parliament of the Scots was noted for ita short and pithy statute. Apparently Scotsmen in the olden times, If their critics are loth to credit -them with wit and humor, bellved that brevity was the aoul of legislation. legisla-tion. For Instance an old Scottish parliament par-liament passed an act which said simply sim-ply "no man shall enter any place where there is hay with a candle unless un-less It be in a lantern." which la probably prob-ably tbe shortest statute ever passed In fact, one small volume Is enough to bold over two centuries of Scotch legislation, and one haa never heard that tbe country was the sufferer thereby.