Obiter
Origin
From Latin obiter.
Full definition of obiter
Adverb
obiter
- 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)- (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.