obiter dictum

That's mainly because the U.S. government said the no-fly dictum applied only to fixed-wing aircraft, not to helicopters.

They will carry out the dictum of Carlyle that the modern university is a university of books.

Nothing can more clearly illustrate Napoleon's dictum, "A la guerre les hommes ne sont rien, c'est un homme qui est tout."

But we doubt whether this dictum enunciates sufficiently clearly the abstract value of morality.

The fallacy, therefore, is dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter.

Ironice dictum, is Calvin's comment, and the words are at least intelligible if so taken.