“Citizens who take it upon themselves to do unusual actions which attract the attention of the police should be careful to bring these actions into one of the recognized categories of crimes and offences, for it is intolerable that the police should be put to the pains of inventing reasons for finding them undesirable.”

— A. P. Herbert , book Uncommon Law

"Is It a Free Country?"
Uncommon Law (1935)

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