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Dicta

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Opinions of a judge that do not embody the resolution or determination of the specific case before the court. Expressions in a court's opinion that go beyond the facts before the court and therefore are individual views of the author of the opinion and not binding in subsequent cases as legal precedent. The plural of dictum.

dicta n. the plural of dictum.
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I assume that this statement, even if it is true, is no more than obiter dicta.
Simon Godhill. Jerusalem: City of Longing by Khuri, Giries el- / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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Also, given Guidi's deep and extensive reading of the sources, one must take into account even what amount to obiter dicta, such as his comments on Machiavelli's supposed religiosity or on the intellectual effects of the geographic distribution of mendicant houses.
L'inquietudine del Quattrocento by Monfasani, John / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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