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De minimis non curat lex - the law does not deal in trifles. Unless a multi-millionaire pharmaceutical businessman wants to make life difficult for someone, app
by failbuffer 4y ago
De minimis non curat lex - the law does not deal in trifles. Unless a multi-millionaire pharmaceutical businessman wants to make life difficult for someone, apparently.
It's silly to see the law chewing up so much time and talent for a prosecution so at odds with the public interest.
- LadyCailin 4y agoThe law absolutely deals in trifles. Go brazenly steal a stick of gum from Walmart, and see what happens.
- Gibbon1 4y agoFriend of mine got hauled in front of a judge for eating a malt ball in a grocery store. Judge fined him 10 cents.
- erehweb 4y agoFrom https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/glossary/de-minimis-non-curat-lex https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/legal/glossary/de-minimis-non-c... "The de minimis rule is seldom relevant in criminal law (so, for, example, the offence of theft is made out whether the property taken is worth one penny or £1 million) but it is not wholly irrelevant. For example, a shopkeeper who hangs a rack of newspapers on the outer wall of his shop abutting the highway may be acquitted of obstruction of the highway on the basis of de minimis non curat lex."
- sbierwagen 4y agoIn SF, nothing.
- Eleison23 4y ago
- DocTomoe 4y agoGiven that this comes down to badly-worded laws that allow for a lot of interpretation, essentially would double the land-owner's exclusively-usable land if corner-cutting was forbidden, and there is apparently no precedence set, this is not a de-minimis-case.
- failbuffer 4y agoFair, but my point was that it /should/ be. That the justice system is content to chew thru thousand of man hours (police, lawyers, prosecution, court officials, etc) instead of just laughing is indicative of the administrative bloat that prevades our institutions. If I were a WY legislator, I'd propose an implied 5ft public access easement on all such crossings.