obiter English

Meaning obiter meaning

What does obiter mean?

obiter adverb

— Incidentally; in passing.

obiter 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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incidentally

parenthetically

by the way

in passing

en passant

come to think of it

by the by