ABSTRACT
The de minimis maxim is largely false. Law is mostly felt via rules and regulations that are often the stuff of annoyance and trying not to get caught. This chapter examines two cases, one from circa 1005 in Iceland and another from 1997 in rural Wisconsin. Both deal with little things, and both show that the trivial is often no little thing at all when honour is at stake. The Wisconsin case shows that honour is still alive and well in our own day in the rich West though it cannot speak its name.
