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  • Obiter dictum (usually used in the plural, obiter dicta) is a Latin phrase meaning "other things said", that is, a remark in a legal opinion that is "said...
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  • In legal writing, a dictum (Latin 'something that has been said'; plural dicta) is a statement made by a court. It may or may not be binding as a precedent...
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  • In music, a dictum (Latin 'something that has been said'; plural dicta) is a type of libretto for a church cantata consisting of quotes from sacred scripture...
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  • court to compose the rationale of a particular judgment. Unlike obiter dicta, the ratio decidendi is, as a general rule, binding on courts of lower and...
    5 KB (790 words) - 08:39, 26 July 2024
  • Obiter dictum (almost always shortened to dictum or, when plural, dicta in legal contexts; not to be confused with the broader meaning of dictum outside...
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  • more important or "educated". Similar to the less common omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina. quieta non movere don't move settled things quilibet potest...
    21 KB (161 words) - 08:03, 25 October 2024
  • Mount Lilydale Mercy College, Lilydale, Victoria, Australia omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina everything said [is] stronger if said in Latin or "everything...
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    Gratian's dicta are referred to with a lowercase "d. a. c." (dictum ante canonem, for commentary preceding the canon) or "d. p. c." (dictum post canonem...
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  • controversial, and obiter dictum within Justice William O. Douglas's concurring opinion received particular attention. In his obiter dictum, Douglas postulated...
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  • in Air Fighting. Go in quickly – Punch hard – Get out! Dicta Boelcke, a First World War dictum on air combat, by German ace Oswald Boelcke Mannock's fifteen...
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    and Wales. However, the most significant part of the judgment is obiter dictum as it relates to hypothetical facts; that is, the landlord did not seek...
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  • public-policy defense in error. Footnote 19, she wrote, was "indisputably dicta". Rosemary Barkett, a member of the original Thomas panel, dissented. "I...
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  • would be a dicto simpliciter. dictum factum what is said is done Motto of United States Navy Fighter Squadron VF-194. dictum meum pactum my word [is] my...
    2 KB (3,739 words) - 21:16, 17 August 2024
  • court in another district. Courts may consider obiter dicta in the opinions of higher courts. The Dicta of a higher court, though not binding, will often...
    100 KB (13,825 words) - 07:28, 27 October 2024
  • inheritance only had to yield it back inasmuch as he was enriched by it. Another dictum of his, impossibilium nulla obligatio est – impossible obligations are void...
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    judgment, judge Denham disavowed the dicta in Furey, focusing on the time difference involved: These words were obiter dicta. Further, they appear in a judgement...
    9 KB (1,105 words) - 02:10, 17 June 2023
  • later commentators on our Constitution and laws; ... and lastly to the dicta and decisions of many of our national and state tribunals. But all this...
    148 KB (17,472 words) - 02:09, 11 November 2024
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    hominem vocato Gigante abozatum, brachiorum novem ex marmore, existentem in dicta Opera, olim abozatum per magistrum Augustinum grande de Florentia, et male...
    84 KB (9,624 words) - 05:54, 2 November 2024
  • original on 2013-03-04, retrieved 2013-01-20 Zadorozny, George (2012-07-11), Dicta in the NFIB v. Sebelius (Obamacare) Decision, archived from the original...
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  • would be a dicto simpliciter. dictum factum what is said is done Motto of United States Navy Fighter Squadron VF-194. dictum meum pactum my word [is] my...
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