advisory opinion
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Case Law, Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914)
Definitions from Case Law
From 333 U.S. 103 - Chicago & Southern Air Lines, Inc. v. Waterman Steamship Corp. · 1948Most cited · 1,428 citing opinions
To revise or review an administrative decision, which has only the force of a recommendation to the President, would be to render an advisory opinion in its most obnoxious form—advice that the President has not asked, tendered at the demand of a private litigant, on a subject concededly within the President's exclusive, ultimate control.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
An opinion of a higher court upon a point before a lower one.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Opinion of Judges.