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	{{g}}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\|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.