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First, the Board has stated, in obiter dicta, on several occasions that the Private Copying regime legalizes copying for the private use of the person making the copy, regardless of whether the source is non-infringing or not.

Boing Boing 2007

When the case was appealed on the issue of costs, Justice Aldous noted in obiter that it would have been desirable to require the third party to give the anonymous defendant notice of the application and then allow the anonymous defendant to make written submissions through the third party in order to better inform the court’s decision:

Protecting internet anonymity: the case for providing notice to anonymous defendants in defamation cases : Law is Cool 2009

I was curious about the habit of calling obiter dicta simply “dicta”.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Not Dictum: 2009

But, as a motion as opposed to a bill, it is what lawyers might call obiter dicta -- a non-binding statement of opinion, not a change in the law.

Ezra in Wonderland - Ezra Levant 2008

But, as a motion as opposed to a bill, it is what lawyers might call obiter dicta -- a non-binding statement of opinion, not a change in the law.

Ezra Levant: May 2008 Archives 2008

Incidental statements, called obiter dicta, are also examples of non-definitive utterances.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

These anecdotes are, perhaps, what judges would call obiter dicta, yet the coroner's court has more than once been utilized as a field in the actual preparation of a criminal case.

Courts and Criminals Arthur Cheney Train 1910

This branch, under ordinary precedent, simply threw the case out of court; but in addition, the decision, proceeding with what lawyers call obiter dictum, went on to declare that under the Constitution of the United States neither Congress nor a territorial legislature possessed power to prohibit slavery in Federal Territories.

A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Nicolay, John G 1904

In such instances, it is referred to as obiter dictum (dictum for short, dicta being the plural) - meaning it is not binding as precedent, as it is a merely personal view of the justice.

Lone Star Times 2009

In such instances, it is referred to as obiter dictum (dictum for short, dicta being the plural) - meaning it is not binding as precedent, as it is a merely personal view of the justice.

Lone Star Times 2009