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That last comment makes it clear that the previous observations of Forbes J were obiter dicta.
The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill.
As I said yesterday, there is the accident compensation legislation, but such dicta as there are are against recovery.
It reversed Judge Newcomer, and noted that federal judges should not take Supreme Court dicta lightly.
The Court of Appeal, in our opinion, was correct in applying the dicta of the Acting Chief Justice and did so without error.
Barbauld's revisions constitute a methodical and quite radical intervention in authoritative Johnsonian dicta on novels and their readers.
That submission runs into the authority of a number of final courts in the world and obiter dicta of this Court.
The Court disagreed with the applicant that the dicta quoted in paras. 49 and 66 established the obligation for which the applicant argued.
There is, however, dicta in an earlier decision of the Court of Appeal that is potentially problematic.
Other authors were shackled by two dicta of contemporary thinking among evolutionary biologists, of which Beadle and Emerson were either unaware or unpersuaded.
Indeed, they resist inquiries from the unanointed into the bases of their pronouncements and insist on handing their pronouncements down as dicta that may not be questioned.
It may be possible to go further and interpret Lord Browne-Wilkinson's somewhat ambiguous dicta as removing the requirement for a fiduciary relationship altogether.
Although such concerns only appear as dicta in Baby Girl, there is no question that they are present.
From here on, he was a philosopher, a sage, and his interviews were stuffed full of dicta, parables and eternal paradoxes.
Most parties to the Convention have ruled that they do, but obiter dicta in two Supreme Court of Canada decisions suggest otherwise.
Within the private sector, few would quarrel with the International Monetary Fund's obiter dicta about wage restraint being necessary for competitiveness.
Though no violation was sustained on the facts of Deisl v. Austria, the dicta of the decision potentially could open a Pandora's Box.
The Panel, however, reads this language as commentary or dicta and not as the holding of the case.
This language is dicta whatever the measure of the actual holding of C. J. Tower.
Since then, in the 1970s, in several road traffic cases, although obiter dicta, it has been stated that there is a defence of necessity.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He was not accustomed to hear his dicta even so slightly questioned by a lad.
How different that sounds from the dicta of the medicine of a past generation!
Laurie then was not in the most favorable of moods to receive the dicta of the Vicar.
Stobaeus in the Sermones collected a number of ethical dicta of one Eusebius, who may perhaps be identical with the neoplatonist.
These dicta are all tried and true, but they have the failings common to platitudes.
These obiter dicta do not trespass on the domain of artistic genealogy.
The two dicta are in direct opposition, yet both may be accepted.
With this apology I come to some among the dicta current in my time.
Some of the dicta of these sectarians have a decidedly Bolshevist flavor.
In most ways the old scout's wide experience gave his dicta value.
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