Crossword clues for obiter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Obiter \Ob"i*ter\ ([o^]b"[i^]*t[~e]r), adv. [L., on the way; ob (see Ob-) + iter a going, a walk, way.] In passing; incidentally; by the way.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. incidentally; in passing. n. (context legal English) 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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Usage examples of "obiter".
Thomas Jefferson used a variation of the phrase obiter dicta when he called Marbury v.
But the philosophy, the theory of government, the understanding of the framers of the constitution, must be considered, if the expression will be allowed, as obiter dicta, and be judged on their merits.
Then there were the obiter dicta supposed to filter down from the very lips - the beak, some claimed - of the Oligarch himself.
But the philosophy, the theory of government, the understanding of the framers of the constitution, must be considered, if the expression will be allowed, as obiter dicta, and be judged on their merits.
Backed by Justices who themselves owned slaves, as his family always had, the old man threw into his basic decision a group of obiter dicta which startled the nation: no arm of government anywhere within the United States could deprive an owner of his lawful property.
As may well be imagined, her obiter dicta, as I believe they're called, had got right in amongst me.
Show me an aunt, I've often said, and I will show you someone who doesn't give a hoot how much her obiter dicta may wound a nephew's sensibilities.
The judge who sat on Muir and Palmer, the famous Braxfield, let fall from the bench the obiter dictum--'I never liked the French all my days, but now I hate them.
True, Augustus Robb had been considerably more than one over the eight when he had thrown out this obiter dictum, but that did not in any way detract from the value of the pronouncement.