OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27459

obiter dictum

/ˌəʊbɪtə ˈdɪktəm/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
opinión accesoria
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 int…
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 t…
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