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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin obiter.
Adverb
obiter (not comparable)
- (formal) Incidentally; in passing.
- , 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)
- (law) 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.
Coordinate terms
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
ob- + iter
Adverb
obiter (not comparable)
- on the way
- incidentally
References
- “obiter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “obiter”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- obiter in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.