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obiter
Part of speech: AdverbIncidentally.
Usage examples "obiter":- When, then, the decisions in these two cases erected the " rule of reason" and declared that only those restraints were forbidden that were unreasonable, the attention of some opponents of the trusts was focussed on the obiter dictum, rather than upon the decisions themselves. - "The United States Since The Civil War", Charles Ramsdell Lingley.
- In taking this position, they had the support of Mr. Justice Harlan who agreed to the decision but condemned the obiter dictum, asserted that the exact words of the law forbade every contract, and deprecated what he believed to be the amendment of statutes by the courts. - "The United States Since The Civil War", Charles Ramsdell Lingley.
- Hence he forged his weapon- the obiter dictum- by whose broad strokes was hewn the highroad of a national destiny. - "John Marshall and the Constitution A Chronicle of the Supreme Court, Volume 16 In The Chronicles Of America Series", Edward S. Corwin.