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Dictum

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

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

polysemous

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unclassified

Variants

synonym
obiter dictumsay-so
plural
Dicta
possessive
Dictum's
pluralpossessive
Dicta's