non obstante veredicto

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non obstante veredicto - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Non obstante \Non` ob*stan"te\ (n[o^]n` [o^]b*st[a^]n"t[-e]).
     [L.]
     1. Notwithstanding; in opposition to, or in spite of, what
        has been stated, or is to be stated or admitted.
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     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.
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              In this very reign [Henry III.] the practice of
              dispensing with statutes by a non obstante was
              introduced.                           --Hallam.
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     Non obstante veredicto [LL.] (Law), a judgment sometimes
        entered by order of the court, for the plaintiff,
        notwithstanding a verdict for the defendant. --Stephen.
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non obstante veredicto - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  NON OBSTANTE VEREDICTO. Notwithstanding the verdict. See Judgment non 
  obstante veredicto.