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Dissenting opinion   /dɪsˈɛntɪŋ əpˈɪnjən/   Listen
Dissenting opinion

noun
1.
An opinion that disagrees with the court's disposition of the case.





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"Dissenting opinion" Quotes from Famous Books



... contrary, Judge Curtis, in his dissenting opinion, shows that in five of the then thirteen States—to wit, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina—free negroes were voters, and in proportion to their numbers had the same part in making the Constitution that the white people ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
... that "the Negroes were so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." The extra-legal character and the general fallacy of his position were exposed by Justice Curtis in a masterly dissenting opinion. ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley


Words linked to "Dissenting opinion" :   judgement, judgment, opinion, legal opinion, jurisprudence, law


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