Dictum
Statement made in a legal ruling / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the legal term. For a kind of cantata libretto, see Dictum (music).
"Dicta" redirects here. For the periodical, see Dicta (journal).
In legal writing, a dictum (Latin 'something that has been said'; plural dicta) is a statement made by a court. It may or may not be binding as a precedent.
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