Dictum一词在法律英语中表示“正式声明”

A dictum is a formal statement made by someone who has authority.

Obiter dictum为法律术语，表示“附带意见；附带讲的话”，是法官判案时所发表的一些法官于判中附带表示，附带讲话，不会影响案件的最后判决。

Obiter dictum: an observation by a judge on some point of law not directly in issue in the case before him and thus neither requiring his decision nor serving as a precedent, but nevertheless of persuasive authority

参考双语例句：

Members may wish to note that in Lee Miu Ling v Attorney General (1995) 5 HKPLR, Keith J made an obiter dictum in his judgment that section 13 of the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance (Cap. 383) (which mirrored the reservation made against Article 25(b) of ICCPR) was, to the extent that it related to LegCo, a dead letter, after the Letters Patent were amended to provide for a wholly elected LegCo in 1995.

谨请委员注意，在李妙玲诉律政司(1995) 5 HKPLR案中，祈彦辉法官在其判决中提出的一项附带意见认为，自从《英皇制诰》作出修订，订明立法局在1995年全面由选举产生后，就《香港人权法案条例》(第 383章 )第 13条 (该条文与就《公民权利和政治权利国际公约》第二十五条(丑)款订立的保留条文一致)与立法会的关係而言，该条文已成为一纸虚文。

In this case, a District Court judge has commented, by way of obiter dictum, that a party who starts and invites the media to report discussions and expressions of opinions on the case, and thus allows the publications of a prejudiced impression to the public may amount to a contempt of court.

在此案中，一名区域法院法官以附带意见的形式表示，若涉案某方先行邀请传媒报道案件的讨论内容及就案件表达的意见，因而容许具损害性的刊物向公众发布，便可能构成藐视法庭。

See also the famous dictum of the Permanent Court of International Justice in the case of the S.S. “Lotus”: “The rules of law binding upon States therefore emanate from their own free will as expressed in conventions or by usages generally accepted as expressing principles of law and established in order to regulate the relations between these coexisting independent communities or with a view to the achievement of common aims. daccess-ods.un.org

另见常设法院就Lotus案的著名判词：“约束国家的法律规则产生于这些国家的意愿，这种意愿体现于公约或体现于普遍接受的做法，而订立这些法律原则是为了调节独立体的共存，或寻求共同目标。

ICJ, case concerning Legality of Use of Force (Yugoslavia versus Belgium), Request for the Indication of Interim Measures, ICJ Reports (1999) p. 131, para. 16, and corresponding obiter dicta in the other Legality of Use of Force cases (1999).

国际法院，关于使用武力合法性的案件(南斯拉夫诉比利时)，关于提出指明临时措施的请求，《国际法院案例汇编》(1999年)第131页，第16段，以及其它关于使用武力合法性的案件(1999年)中的有关附带意见。

See also the famous dictum of the Permanent Court of International Justice in the case of the S.S. “Lotus”: “The rules of law binding upon States therefore emanate from their own free will as expressed in conventions or by usages generally accepted as expressing principles of law and established in order to regulate the relations between these coexisting independent communities or with a view to the achievement of common aims.

See also the famous dictum of the Permanent Court of International Justice in the case of the S.S. “Lotus”：“因此，对各国具有约束力的法律规则源自公约中所表现的各国自己的自由意志，或以普遍接受的习俗表示的和予以确立的法律原则规范共存的独立社区之间关系或预期实现共同的目标。