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Word: obiter
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Meaning:
Adverb:
- Incidentally; in passing.
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Noun:
- 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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