obiter

obiter englanniksi

1. Incidentally; passing.

2. (RQ:Burton Melancholy), New York, 2001, p.206:

I will not here stand to discuss ''obiter'', whether stars be causes, or signs; or to apologize for judicial astrology.

3. An dictum; a statement from the bench commenting on a point of law which is not necessary for the judgment at hand and therefore has no judicial weight, as opposed to decidendi.

4. on the way

5. incidentally