obiter

  1. Adverb.  Incidentally; in passing.
  2. 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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