The law disregards trifles.
Cal. Civ. Code § 3533
MAXIMS OF JURISPRUDENCE
Applied in 27 court decisions — leading case 135 Cal. App. 4th 663 - Colgan v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. (2006)
Most recently applied in Troester v. Starbucks Corp. (April 2019)
Enacted 1872.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.