This Magna Carta/Common Law stuff is rubbish, isn’t it?

[PuzzledObserver]

Could this woman end up in prison for non-payment of fines?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-56828306

Yep

Freeman of the land alert! She’ll be claiming to be covered by maritime law before you know it 🙈

Yes it is rubbish. Tinfoil hat lunacy, only believed by the terminally stupid. She will be fined, and if she doesn't pay all her possessions will be taken by bailiffs to go towards the cost. It is not possible to opt out of the law of the land.

It's utter piffle.
It's hard to believe how an adult could make themselves believe that because they "do not consent" to the laws of this country, the laws are not going to apply to them.
My hunch would be that if someone robs them, or harms them, or writes their car off, they're going to want UK law to be applied to that person.

It is complete rubbish. It is either Freeman on the Land or one of the related forms of legal woo. There are only four clauses in Magna Carta that still apply today. The rest is long since repealed. The clause on which she is relying (Article 61) was in the original 1215 version but that was quickly declared null and void by the Pope. It was not in the final version of 1225, which is the version that forms the basis for our common law today.

The other problem she has is that, even if Article 61 was still in force, it only gives rights to 25 barons. She is clearly not a baron.

Yup. She one of those idiot anti-maskers who think they shouldn’t abide by a law when it doesn’t suit them.
www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19231683.amp/

I love Freeman on the Land threads and have read some corkers on here. For example:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2095211-to-think-the-common-law-freeman-on-the-land-thing-is-a-whole-load-of-bollocks

On the one hand it's complete rubbish. On the other hand it's a very convenient way of spotting utter tosspots.