obiter dictum latin

• Dictum

. [Latin, A remark.] A statement, comment, or opinion. An aabbreviated version of obiter dictum, "a remark by the way," which is a collater...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Com–Dor

• Briscoe v. LaHue, 460 U.S. 325 (1983)

... in judicial proceedings was purely dictum. The plaintiff sought damages for defendants' alle... policy; but this expression of opinion was obiter, since the case in issue was one of qualified immu...,7 or the related action known by its Latin name, crimen feloniae imposuit (imputing the crime...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Section 2: Powers and Duties of the President

... saw the expansion in the Caribbean and Latin America both of the use of troops for the furtheri..., the Court declared by way of dictum that its decision "must not be understood as in th... , 165 -166 (1868), wherein it is stated obiter that "Congress is bound to regard the public trea...

• Constitution of the United States (Annotated)

• Factual causation and healthcare-associated infections.

...'Nosocomial' comes from the Latin word nosocomium, which means 'hospital,' and the G...In Michener v. Doris, (99) Allan J., in obiter, (100) insisted that where, by contrast, there is ...(118) This obiter dictum may be interpreted as supporting findings of causa...

• Health Law Journal
• Nbr. 17, January 2009

• Interventions: decentering modernism: art history and avant-garde art from the periphery.

... advent of modernism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America could thus be studied as the transfer of t...G. Subramanuyan's obiter dicta on Rabindranath Tagore, "Rabindranath and Ar.... (64.) This famous dictum of Winckelmann's is widely quoted; see, for instan...

• The Art Bulletin
• Vol. 90 Nbr. 4, December 2008

• United States v. New York City Bd. of Educ., (2nd Cir. 2011)

... because it included individuals of Latin American descent while excluding Spaniards. We ... that is before him; he cannot transmute dictum into decision by waving a wand and uttering the wo... 800 (defining "holding"), 1177 (defining "obiter dictum") (9th ed. 2009). Our decision to remand th...

• Federal Circuits

• Ratio Decidendi

. (Latin: "Reason for being decided.") A statement made in ... OF THE COURT is either ratio decidendi or OBITER DICTUM. Ratio decidendi refers to a statement that...

• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
• QU-SY

• Obiter Dictum

. [Latin, By the way.] Words of an opinion entirely unneces...

• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
• Mc–Pl

• Reflections on Reves v. Ernst & Young: its meaning and impact on substantive, accessory, aiding abetting and conspiracy liability under RICO.

Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act - 25th Anniversary Issue The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act was intended to attack both organized crime and white collar crime, and the statute should be used against professionals to prosecute them for crimes that cost the economy billions of dollars. Some courts have mistakenly interpreted the US Supreme Court's Reves v. Ernst & Young decision as a safe harbor for professionals not involved in operation or management of a defrauding enterprise. Accomplice liability and conspiracy laws are unchanged by Reves, which only address principal liability, and courts should not be swayed by immunity arguments that cloak professional misdeeds.

... defendant."(117) It then suggested in dictum: . Mere participation in the predicate offenses li... of criminality, which is reflected in the Latin maxim ignorantia facti excusat (ignorance of the f...obiter dictum was made to [the issue] in Oscar v. Univ. S...

• American Criminal Law Review
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 5, January 1996

• While we're at it.

...Any priest can now say the Novus Ordo in Latin, but few do. My hunch is that the new directive fr..., writes Zaleski, is attuned to Pascal's dictum that we dwell between two abysses, the Infinite an...Despite obiter dicta such as those of Justice Ginsburg, there is ...

• First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
• Nbr. 2006, January 2006