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Glossographer

A writer of a glossary a commentator a scholiast

Offhand

Instant unprepared ready extemporaneous unrehearsed as an offhand speech offhand excuses an offhand comment

Extrajudicial

Extrajudicial [fr. extra and judicium, Lat.], out of the regular course of legal procedure. An extrajudicial dictum is the same as an obiter dictum. See DICTUM.

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Philologize

To study or make critical comments on language

Postil

in the margin of the Bible so called because written after the text hence a marginal note a comment

Sententiary

One who read lectures or commented on the Sentences of Peter Lombard Bishop of Paris 1159 1160 a school divine

Accession

et G. l. 4, c. 7. The rule of the Roman Law was expressed thus: Accessio cedit principali. Commentators have used the word accessio not only for the increase itself, but also for the mode in which

Contract, breach of, inducement of

216, and Temperton v. Russell, (1893) 1 QB 715; but the principles laid down in these cases were commented on in Allen v. Flood, 1898 AC 1. An Act done by a person in contemplation or furtherance

Criminal Evidence Act

not to be called except on his own application; (b) Failure to give evidence is not to be commented on by the prosecution; (c) The wife or husband is not to be called except on the applicationof

Dictum

Dictum. An observation as to the law made by a judge in the course of a case, but not necessary to its decision, and therefore of no binding effect; often called an obiter dictum, 'a remark...

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