obiter dictum

Sometime during their years of instruction, most law school students encounter the Latin phrase “obiter dictum,” and many of them promptly forget it.

Hersey and Wolfe were given to issuing restrictive obiter dicta about nonfiction writing.

Judging by Southgate’s obiter dicta at his post‑match press conference it seems England were broadly convinced that the choice for the last 16 would boil down to Senegal and Colombia.

In his remarks, Kerr explained: “These findings do not represent a binding decision of the of the court. Technically, the findings are what are described as ‘obiter dicta’.

Like any author worth reading, Mr. Hens is sometimes best when he goes off-topic, dispatching obiter dicta.