obiter's Usage Examples:

obiter dictum in Latin means "something said in passing", and relates to a comment.

vacantia In the case of dissolution for lack of members, obiter comments in the case indicate that the rights will pass to the Crown as bona vacantia.

Examples in invertebratesSome termites, such as Globitermes sulphureus and ants, such as Camponotus saundersi release a sticky secretion by fatally rupturing a specialized gland.

In his obiter dictum, Douglas postulated.

surrogate consent for the non-therapeutic circumcision of male children is obiter dictum and not part of the judgment.

later case is said to "approve" that obiter, and the earlier case may be marked "approved", "followed", or "obiter followed".

The termite species Globitermes sulphureus has a similar defensive system.

" However, this constitutes a mere obiter dictum that had no impact on the outcome of the case.

nature of the remedies open to the liquidator, and handed down the obiter dictum for which the case is best known.

EvaluationLegman was in many senses a radical, but never identified with the movements of his time, decrying the sexual revolution, for example, in The Fake Revolt (1967), and leaving countless irascible obiter dicta on such topics as women's liberation, rock and roll and the psychedelic movement's use of mind-altering substances.

In Sykes v Cleary, the High Court stated (in obiter) that the words "shall be incapable of being chosen" must refer to the process.

Unlike obiter dicta, the ratio decidendi is, as a general rule, binding on courts of lower and.

controversial, and obiter dictum within Justice William O.