Definition for NON-OBSTANTE

NON-OBSTANTE, conj. [Non obstante; L.]

Notwithstanding; in opposition to what has been stated or is to be stated or admitted. A clause in statutes and letters patent, importing a license from the king to do a thing which at common law might be lawfully done, but being restrained by Act of Parliament, can not be done without such license. Encyc.

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