obiter dictum
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌəʊbɪtə ˈdɪktəm/
Noun
obiter dictum (plural obiter dicta)
- An incidental remark; especially (law) a statement or remark in a court's judgment that is not essential to the disposition of the case. [from 18th c.]
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 128:
- Casual obiter dicta by men of accepted godliness belonged to a different category from the ecstatic claims to immediate revelation made by obscure persons who thrust themselves into the limelight […].
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 128:
Translations
statement not essential to the disposition of the case
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