Demilitibus

Lat. Of, or concerning knights. The title of a statute passed in the 1st year of Edward II., the object of which was to abate that part of the feudal system, which required every one possessed of a knight's fee (feudum militare,) to take upon him the order of knighthood, (suscipere arma militaria.) Crabb's Hist. 201, 2. 2 Reeves' Hist. 288. 2 Inst. 593. This is said to have been not properly a legislative act, but a writ granted by the king in time of parliament, and entered by his direction on the record. Id. ibid. De minimis non curat lex. The law does not care for, or take notice of trifling matters. Thus, error in calculation of a fractional part of a penny will not be regarded. Hob. 88. Cro. Eliz. 363. So, the law will not, in general, notice the fraction of a day. Broom's Max. 333. See Id. 156. Nor the imperceptible gain of land from the sea by alluvion. 2 Bl. Com. 262. But this maxim is never applied to cases of positive and wrongful invasion of right, however trifling may be the injury actually sustained. See 5 Hill's (N. Y.) R. 170.