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I wonder what would have happened if someone murdered a person before 2015 on Iceland who happened to be Basque (due to some other disagreement perhaps). Then i

by sgt 6y ago

I wonder what would have happened if someone murdered a person before 2015 on Iceland who happened to be Basque (due to some other disagreement perhaps). Then in court, the accused would claim innocence due to the legal right that in fact was still in existence. Would he walk?

vruiz 6y ago
It's in the article >"The decision to do away with the decree was more symbolic than anything else," Westfjords district commissioner Jonas Gudmundsson told reporters last month. "We have laws, of course, and killing anyone — including Basques — is forbidden these days."
avar 6y ago
leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant The Icelandic legal system operates on the well-established principle that later laws implicitly repeal earlier ones if they conflict[1]. So no, killing a Basque person would have been legally no different than killing anyone else. There was also a law on the books until 1991 that you could legally kill Turks on sight, due to an incident that didn't even involve Turkish people to begin with[2] (Icelanders at the time apparently didn't differentiate them from Algerians). It was repealed, but not due to any legal practicality. The Turkish national team refused to travel to Iceland unless the law was repealed, so it was struck from the books as a purely symbolic gesture. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_repeal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_repeal 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Abductions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Abductions
- enchiridion 6y ago
  Maybe? I guess it depends on how old the law against murder is.
  - throw_away 6y ago
    & if the stone tablets it was written on aren't dated? Now we have a comparison with NULL problem in our query.
- baud147258 6y ago
  > an incident that didn't even involve Turkish people to begin with At the time, Algeria was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire
  - Melting_Harps 6y ago
    > At the time, Algeria was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire Seems the original Vikings were afraid of being Viking'd themselves and put into Law?

by sgt 6y ago

vruiz 6y ago

It's in the article >"The decision to do away with the decree was more symbolic than anything else," Westfjords district commissioner Jonas Gudmundsson told reporters last month. "We have laws, of course, and killing anyone — including Basques — is forbidden these days."

avar 6y ago

leges posteriores priores contrarias abrogant The Icelandic legal system operates on the well-established principle that later laws implicitly repeal earlier ones if they conflict[1]. So no, killing a Basque person would have been legally no different than killing anyone else. There was also a law on the books until 1991 that you could legally kill Turks on sight, due to an incident that didn't even involve Turkish people to begin with[2] (Icelanders at the time apparently didn't differentiate them from Algerians). It was repealed, but not due to any legal practicality. The Turkish national team refused to travel to Iceland unless the law was repealed, so it was struck from the books as a purely symbolic gesture. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_repeal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_repeal 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Abductions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Abductions

enchiridion 6y ago
Maybe? I guess it depends on how old the law against murder is.
- throw_away 6y ago
  & if the stone tablets it was written on aren't dated? Now we have a comparison with NULL problem in our query.
baud147258 6y ago
> an incident that didn't even involve Turkish people to begin with At the time, Algeria was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire
- Melting_Harps 6y ago
  > At the time, Algeria was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire Seems the original Vikings were afraid of being Viking'd themselves and put into Law?