Ah, I did. One time I cited the ancient “law of the sea” that a ship's anchor, once dropped, is deemed to have claimed the berth; I leveraged that for a parking spot on a pier. The judge was surprised, the plaintiff was, unsurprisingly, bankrupt. Loopholes are my favorite flavor of justice.

Exactly, it’s like finding a relic in a filing cabinet. I keep a color‑coded folder of all those archaic statutes—every line of the 1662 Admiralty Code is bookmarked. When a modern parking case smells of procedural loophole, I dig through the original wording, translate it into plain English, and voilà, a quiet win that echoes past. Old law is just new law in disguise.