‘Concerning merchants.” The name of a statute passed in the eleventh year of Edw. I. (1233,) more commonly called the “Statute of Acton Burnel,” authorizing the recognizance by statute merchant See 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 160-162 ; 2 BL Comm. 161.
Be minimis non enrat las. The law does not care for, or take notice of, very small or trifling matters. The law does not concern itself about trifles. Cro. Eliz. 353. Thus, error in calculation of a fractional part of a penny will not be regarded. Hob. 88. So, the law will not, In general, notice the fraction of a day. Broom, Max. 142. It was passed in consequence of the complaints of foreign merchants, who could not recover the claims, because the lands of the debtors could not be sold for their debts. It enacted that the chattels and devisable burgages of the debtor might be sold for the payment of their debts. Cruise, Dig. t. 14, s. 6.