obiter

Borrowed from Latin obiter.

obiter (not comparable)

1. Incidentally; in passing.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):

     , New York, 2001, p.206:

     I will not here stand to discuss obiter, whether stars be causes, or signs; or to apologize for judicial astrology.

obiter (plural obiters)

1. (law) An obiter dictum; a statement from the bench commenting on a point of law which is not necessary for the judgment at hand and therefore has no judicial weight, as opposed to ratio decidendi.

• ratio decidendi, ratio

• brotie, torbie

obiter

1. on the way
2. incidentally

• obiter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• obiter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obiter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette