• Obiter

    Origin

    From Latin obiter.

    Full definition of obiter

    Adverb

    obiter

    1. Incidentally; in passing.
      • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 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.

    Noun

    obiter

    (plural obiters)
    1. (legal) 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.

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