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{{ | {{a|latin|}}An [[obiter dictum]] is literally a “statement made in passing”; tossed off, as it were, by a court ''en route'' to a different a legal determination (a “[[ratio decidendi]]”) about something else. | ||
A chance remark; a passing observation; a ''bon mot'', not entirely on point to the matter at hand but which, if not strictly [[precedent|binding]] on a subsequently-convened lower court, is apt to make it swoon with admiration all the same. | A chance remark; a passing observation; a ''bon mot'', not entirely on point to the matter at hand but which, if not strictly [[precedent|binding]] on a subsequently-convened lower court, is apt to make it swoon with admiration all the same. |