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{{g}}Literally “the reason for the season”, the [[ratio decidendi]] is that thing you turned up in the court to hear, and to be contrasted by those moments when the learned court strays off the strict confines of the question it was asked, and offers you its opinions on other topics ([[obiter dicta]]).
{{a|latin|}}Literally “the reason for the season”, the [[ratio decidendi]] is that thing you turned up in the court to hear, and to be contrasted by those moments when the learned court strays off the strict confines of the question it was asked, and offers you its opinions on other topics ([[obiter dicta]]).


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