obiter

== 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 ==== ratio decidendi, ratio ==== Related terms ==== === Anagrams === brotie, torbie == 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.