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n. An authoritative, often formal pronouncement: "He cites Augustine's dictum that 'If you understand it, it is not God'” ( Joseph Sobran).

n. Law See obiter dictum.

n. An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.

n. A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.

n. The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.

n. An arbitrament or award.

n. An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.

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n. A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.

n. The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.

n. An arbitrament or award.

n. A positive or judicial assertion; an authoritative saying.

n. In law, an opinion of a judge which does not embody the resolution or determination of the court, and is made without argument, or full consideration of the point, and is not the professed deliberate determination of the judge himself.

n. In logic, that part of a modal proposition which consists of the proposition to which the modality is applied.

n. Synonyms Aphorism, Axiom, Maxim, etc. See aphorism.

n. an authoritative declaration

n. an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding

judgment    legal opinion    judgement    opinion   

dictum de omni et de nullo    dictum of kenilworth    obiter dicta    dictum simpliciter   

dicta   

apothegm    saying    dictate    say-so    say   

victim   

factum    maxim    aliud    volo    satis    adage    dicta    Ulla    debeat    vobis