DUBITANTE

dubitante (d[y]oo-bi-tan-tee). [Latin] Doubting.  • This term was  usu.  placed in a law report

next to a judge’s name, indicating that the judge doubted a legal point but was unwilling to state

that it was wrong. — Also termed dubitans.

“[E]xpressing the epitome of the common law spirit, there is the opinion entered dubitante —

the judge is unhappy about some aspect of the decision rendered, but cannot quite bring himself to

record an open dissent.” Lon L. Fuller, Anatomy of the Law 147 (1968). [Blacks Law 8th]