Nōn ob-stān’te

[Lat.] 1. Notwithstanding; in opposition to what has been stated, or is to be stated or admitted.

2Sense 2. (Law.) A clause in statutes and letters patent, importing a license from the king to do a thing notwithstanding any statute to the contrary.

In this very reign [Henry III.] the practice of dispensing with statutes by a non obstante was introduced. Hallam.