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  2. Dictum - Wikipedia

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    In English law, a dictum is any statement made as part of a judgment of a court. Thus the term includes dicta stated incidentally, in passing (obiter dicta), that are not a necessary part of the rationale for the court's decision (referred to as the ratio decidendi).

  3. Dictema - Wikipedia

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    Dictema (Latin: dico, dixi, dictum – "I say, I state") is an elementary situational-thematic unit of a text, formed of one or more sentences as units of the immediately lower level of language segments. [1]

  4. List of Latin phrases (Q) - Wikipedia

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    quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur: whatever has been said in Latin seems deep: Or "anything said in Latin sounds profound". A recent ironic Latin phrase to poke fun at people who seem to use Latin phrases and quotations only to make themselves sound more important or "educated". Similar to the less common omnia dicta fortiora si dicta ...

  5. List of Latin phrases (full) - Wikipedia

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    To justify the recreational use of opiates by referring to a cancer patient or to justify arresting said patient by comparing him to the recreational user would be a dicto simpliciter. dictum factum: what is said is done: Motto of United States Navy Fighter Squadron VF-194. dictum meum pactum: my word [is] my bond: Motto of the London Stock ...

  6. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    Definition and use English pron a fortiori: from stronger An a fortiori argument is an "argument from a stronger reason", meaning that, because one fact is true, a second (related and included) fact must also be true. / ˌ eɪ f ɔːr t i ˈ oʊ r aɪ, ˌ eɪ f ɔːr ʃ i ˈ oʊ r aɪ / a mensa et thoro: from table and bed

  7. List of Latin phrases (S) - Wikipedia

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    An acritical application of law, without understanding and respect of laws's purposes and without considering the overall circumstances, is often a means of supreme injustice. A similar sentence appears in Terence (Heautontimorumenos, IV, 5): Ius summum saepe summa est malitia ("supreme justice is often out of supreme malice (or wickedness)").

  8. Shouting fire in a crowded theater - Wikipedia

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    The phrase is a paraphrasing of a dictum, or non-binding statement, from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment of the United ...

  9. List of Latin phrases (O) - Wikipedia

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    obiter dictum: a thing said in passing: in law, an observation by a judge on some point of law not directly relevant to the case before him, and thus neither requiring his decision nor serving as a precedent, but nevertheless of persuasive authority. In general, any comment, remark or observation made in passing obliti privatorum, publica curate