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Definition of Dictums
1. dictum [n] - See also: dictum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dictums
Literary usage of Dictums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench: During by James Burrow, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, William Murray Mansfield (1812)
"... determined right, (barring the dictums that were used in it:) KEX wanted but
six weeks of fourteen. And that case was 1763. the ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1866)
"All her opinions were “dictums,” and all her “dictums” were laws. She was, as I
have already observed, very severe on her neighbours. ..."
3. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"It may be expressed or implied, and on this, as on most such questions, there
are many dictums uttered, and rules laid down in the books. ..."
4. The Album edited by Francis Barry Boyle St. Leger (1823)
"Hide thyself! Sin and shame May not be hidden. Light and air for thee ? Despair!
despair ! Chorus. Quid sum miser tune dictums, Quern patronum ..."
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