obiter dictum
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˌəʊbɪtə ˈdɪktəm/
obiter dictum
- An incidental remark; especially (legal) 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 (historian), 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 (historian), Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 128:
- Spanish: opinión accesoria
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