Hunting license (idiom)
As someone who has "a hunting license has" been and will be in Germany colloquially , a person referred to as incompetent is classified. Therefore, the phrase is because the holder of a hunting license in its territory hunting on wildlife may make while others in punishment prohibited and incompetent person analogous to an (imaginary) charter has that allows it to do with impunity forbidden things . Until the 1960s there was § 51 StGB a. F., through which mentally ill people in Germany were generally classified as not of legal age . This regulation was replaced by the major reform of criminal law in 1977, including Section 20 of the Criminal Code (incapacity due to mental disorders) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hunting license (meaning 2). In: Duden.de. Retrieved March 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Hunting license. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved on October 16, 2019 "casual, joking: official certificate of insanity"
- ↑ Lutz Röhrich : Lexicon of the proverbial sayings . 5 volumes, Freiburg i. Br. 1991, p. 781.
