The bill revoked a 120-year old statute that was one of California's first environmental laws.

It will be the oldest statute in force on the Irish statute book as of 2007.

It will replace many older statutes in force now including:

But the state also has on its books an older statute that is aimed at protecting military recruiters.

Nevertheless, arrests continued under the old, unconstitutional statute, which the judge traced to 1788.

"They could even have been sentenced under the old statute."

Murder and theft are prohibited, too, under much older statutes.

But it thought that reading those words more broadly in older statutes would "bring instability" to the interpretive task.

The old statute required a finding of "credible evidence" that a senior official had broken the law.

In some old statutes, very curious sumptuary regulations as to women's dress occur.