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It isn't utterly sensible. Quite a lot of it was repealed in 1959. Including the parts about playing football. So legislators came to disagree with a fair amount of it over the years since. > […] or shall play at Football or any other Game on any Part of the said Highways, to the Annoyance of any Passenger or Passengers […]