dictum vs rescript

dictum

noun
  • The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. 

  • An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm. 

  • An arbitrament or award. 

  • A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it. 

rescript

noun
  • A clarification of a point of law by a monarch issued upon formal consultation by a lower magistrate. 

  • A rewriting, a document copied or written again. 

  • A duplicate copy of a legal document. 

  • An ad hoc reply of a pope to some specific question of canon law or morality, without precedential force, sometimes (improper) inclusive of decretals which serve as precedents in canon law. 

verb
  • To script again or anew. 

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