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Non`ob*serv"ance (?), n. Neglect
or failure to observe or fulfill.

||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.

||Non obstante veredicto [LL.] (Law),
a judgment sometimes entered by order of the court, for the
plaintiff, notwithstanding a verdict for the defendant.
Stephen.

No*no"ic (?), a. (Chem.)
Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, nonane; as,
nonoic acid, which is also called pelargonic acid. Cf.
Pelargonic.


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