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obiter dictum

Latin legal term describing a legal opinion issued in passing
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obiter dictum

Summary

obiter dictum is a Latin phrase[1]. It draws 50 Wikipedia views per month (latin_phrase category, ranking #147 of 326).[2]

Key Facts

  • obiter dictum's instance of is recorded as Latin phrase[3].
  • obiter dictum's instance of is recorded as legal term or legal concept[4].
  • obiter dictum's opposite of is recorded as ratio decidendi[5].
  • obiter dictum's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03pgzg[6].
  • obiter dictum's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[7].
  • obiter dictum's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as obiter_dictum[8].
  • obiter dictum's Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID is recorded as obiter-dictum[9].
  • obiter dictum's Treccani Vocabulary ID is recorded as obiter-dictum[10].
  • obiter dictum's TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID is recorded as kanaat[11].
  • obiter dictum's Lex ID is recorded as obiter_dictum[12].

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Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include Latin phrase[3] and legal term or legal concept[4].

Why It Matters

obiter dictum draws 50 Wikipedia views per month (latin_phrase category, ranking #147 of 326).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[13] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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