||Non` ob*stan"te (?). [L.] 1.
Notwithstanding; in opposition to, or in spite of, what has been
stated, or is to be stated or admitted.
2. (Law) A clause in old English
statutes and letters patent, importing a license from the crown to do
a thing notwithstanding any statute to the contrary. This dispensing
power was abolished by the Bill of Rights.
In this very reign [Henry III.] the practice of
dispensing with statutes by a non obstante was
introduced.
Hallam.
||Non obstante veredicto [LL.] (Law),
a judgment sometimes entered by order of the court, for the
plaintiff, notwithstanding a verdict for the defendant.
Stephen.