nnoun.communicationan authoritative declarationSynset:pronouncement say-so
Derivationally Related Form:pronounce
Hypernyms:declaration
Inherited Hypernyms:pronouncementdeclarationstatementmessagecommunicationabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:directive
Full Hyponyms:directivepresidential directive
nnoun.communicationan opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not bindingTopic:jurisprudencelaw
Synset:obiter dictum
Hypernyms:judgement judgment legal opinion opinion
Inherited Hypernyms:obiter dictumopinionlegal documentdocumentwritingwritten communicationcommunicationabstractionentity