# Is there anything in British law that would have required someone to sign egg-blue paper in blood? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 20, 2015, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-in-british-law-that-would-have-required-someone-to-sign-egg-blue-paper-in-blood/718104 "2015-04-20T10:36:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bisected8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a4c791/32.png) [@Bisected8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bisected8)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-in-british-law-that-would-have-required-someone-to-sign-egg-blue-paper-in-blood/718104/1 "2015-04-20T10:36:23Z")
This oddly specific question brought to you by [this.](http://unfiltered.notalwaysright.com/post/116599855735/court-nottingham-uk-my-mother-is-a-prosecutor) Obviously anything on NAR (especially the unfiltered page) should be taken with a grain of salt, but I’m vaguely curious if there is anything in English common law that would demand a valid document be either written on “robins-egg blue paper” or signed in the signatory’s own blood? ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-in-british-law-that-would-have-required-someone-to-sign-egg-blue-paper-in-blood/718104/2 "2015-04-20T11:10:46Z")
The British common law has (or had) any number of odd quirks. However, my experience is that such quirks are commonly discussed and chuckled about. Contrastingly, I just googled “robins-egg blue paper blood” and found references only to (a) this thread (b) some completely bonkers freemen type websites. Consequently my guess is it’s some total crapola that someone made up. ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-in-british-law-that-would-have-required-someone-to-sign-egg-blue-paper-in-blood/718104/3 "2015-04-20T11:50:25Z")
Its clearly meant to be a joke. For one there is no, “UK Crime and Prosecution service”. You have the [del]Clown[/del] Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales, the HM Advocate in Scotland and the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland in…N Ireland. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-in-british-law-that-would-have-required-someone-to-sign-egg-blue-paper-in-blood/718104/4 "2015-04-20T13:50:21Z")
If it worked at all, it was due to the poster’s mum successfully out-bullshitting a bullshitter, not from any actual law. If it were based on an actual law, the supposed freeman probably wouldn’t have known of it, and probably wouldn’t have recognized it even if he had. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-in-british-law-that-would-have-required-someone-to-sign-egg-blue-paper-in-blood/718104/5 "2015-04-20T17:47:39Z")
Exactly. He’s arguing that his own code of law trumps everyone else, so she invents something totally nonsensical, implying that it trumps his idea: and he either just believes her, or takes her point and gives in. ---
**Author:** ![Haberdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Haberdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haberdash)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-in-british-law-that-would-have-required-someone-to-sign-egg-blue-paper-in-blood/718104/6 "2015-04-20T19:21:40Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Its clearly meant to be a joke. For one there is no, “UK Crime and Prosecution service”. You have the [del]Clown[/del] Crown Prosecution Service in England and Wales, the HM Advocate in Scotland and the Public Prosecution Service for Northern Ireland in…N Ireland. Also, the “lawyer” would be a “solicitor,” the “prosecutor” would be a “crown prosecutor,” and certainly anyone working in the legal system of the United Kingdom would know that the “common law” is the foundation of the entire enterprise, not something made up by a crazy defendant (who would more likely be called “the accused” but not necessarily so). Not Always Right = Always Shit That Didn’t Happen. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-anything-in-british-law-that-would-have-required-someone-to-sign-egg-blue-paper-in-blood/718104/7 "2015-04-20T19:54:54Z")
And then everyone in the courtroom applauded! We’re celebrating our gay marriage next week!