obiter

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Adverb

 * 1)  Incidentally; in passing.
 * , New York, 2001, p.206:
 * I will not here stand to discuss obiter, whether stars be causes, or signs; or to apologize for judicial astrology.

Noun

 * 1)  An obiter dictum; a statement from the bench commenting on a point of law which is not necessary for the judgment at hand and therefore has no judicial weight, as opposed to ratio decidendi.

Adverb

 * 1) on the way
 * 2) incidentally