Non obstante \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)