obiter dictum
noun/ˌəʊbɪtə ˈdɪktəm/UK/ˌoʊbɪɾɚ ˈdɪktəm/US
Etymology
From Latin obiter dictum (“something said by the way”).
- borrowed from obiter
Definitions
An incidental remark
An incidental remark; especially (law) a statement or remark in a court's judgment that is not essential to the disposition of the case.
- 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 […].
- However, McHugh J noted obiter dicta that if the meaning of the word was construed at that level of abstraction today, ‘it would deny the Parliament of the Commonwealth the power to legislate for same sex marriages[…]’.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA