Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.