Obiter

Word OBITER
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Hyphenation ‖Ob i ter
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Definitions and meanings of "Obiter"

What do we mean by obiter?

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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The word "obiter" in example sentences

First, the Board has stated, in obiter dicta, on several occasions that the Private Copying regime legalizes copying for the private use of the person making the copy, regardless of whether the source is non-infringing or not. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When the case was appealed on the issue of costs, Justice Aldous noted in obiter that it would have been desirable to require the third party to give the anonymous defendant notice of the application and then allow the anonymous defendant to make written submissions through the third party in order to better inform the court’s decision: ❋ Unknown (2009)

I was curious about the habit of calling obiter dicta simply “dicta”. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But, as a motion as opposed to a bill, it is what lawyers might call obiter dicta -- a non-binding statement of opinion, not a change in the law. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Incidental statements, called obiter dicta, are also examples of non-definitive utterances. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

These anecdotes are, perhaps, what judges would call obiter dicta, yet the coroner's court has more than once been utilized as a field in the actual preparation of a criminal case. ❋ Arthur Cheney Train (1910)

This branch, under ordinary precedent, simply threw the case out of court; but in addition, the decision, proceeding with what lawyers call obiter dictum, went on to declare that under the Constitution of the United States neither Congress nor a territorial legislature possessed power to prohibit slavery in Federal Territories. ❋ Nicolay, John G (1904)

In such instances, it is referred to as obiter dictum (dictum for short, dicta being the plural) - meaning it is not binding as precedent, as it is a merely personal view of the justice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I wonder that Taylor should have introduced so very strong an argument merely 'obiter'. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

Hints 'obiter' are: -- not to permit delicacy and exquisiteness to seduce into effeminacy. ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)

The professor had shown him the pictures from the obiter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Michael B: This is one reason why, should a 5 – 4 or better decision result against the new legislation, it would seem prudent, or at least reasonable, to render obiter dictum originalist lines of supportive rationales, even though the deciding and concurring opinions themselves would almost certainly not rely upon originalist lines of reasoning. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is one reason why, should a 5 – 4 or better decision result against the new legislation, it would seem prudent, or at least reasonable, to render obiter dictum originalist lines of supportive rationales, even though the deciding and concurring opinions themselves would almost certainly not rely upon originalist lines of reasoning. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although the obiter from Totalise is compelling, English courts have yet to impose a notice requirement. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That was Quiller-Couch for you; the sort of gratuitous, extra-legal filigree that clients loved but which was, strictly speaking, obiter dicta, legal window-dressing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That was Quiller-Couch for you; the sort of gratuitous, extra-legal filigree that clients loved but which was, strictly speaking,obiter dicta,legal window-dressing. ❋ Con Chapman (2010)

However, we have gotten into problems in the past with theological and ethical obiter dicta cluttering up the magisterial landscape. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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