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Non obstante   Listen
adverb
Non obstante  adv.  
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."
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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"Non obstante" Quotes from Famous Books



... saepius aggravando, et per alia juris remedia, auctoritate Apostolica exequantur; invocato etiam ad hoc, si opus fuerit, auxilio brachii saecularis. Volumus autem quod praesentis motus proprii nostri sola signatura sufficiat, et ubique fidem faciat in judicio et extra, regula contraria non obstante et officii sanctissimae ...
— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Volume 1, Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi • Giorgio Vasari


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