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adverb

Non obstante adv.

Notwithstanding; in opposition to, or in spite of, what has been stated, or is to be stated or admitted.

(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."

Non obstante veredicto (Law), a judgment sometimes entered by order of the court, for the plaintiff, notwithstanding a verdict for the defendant.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Non obstante" Quotes from Famous Books

... forget our own experience, and to counterfeit the ignorance of our own knowledge, in all things that concern ourselves; or persuade ourselves, that God hath given us letters patents to pursue all our irreligious affections, with a "non obstante"[12] so we neither look behind us what hath been, nor before us what shall be. It is true, that the quantity which we have, is of the body: we are by it joined to the earth: we are compounded of earth; and we inhabit it. The Heavens are high, far off, and unsearchable: we have sense and feeling ...

— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot