Dispensation
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
An exemption from conimanded; the canonistic pame for a license. Wharton, A relaxation of law for the benefit or advantage of an individual. In the United States, no power exists, except iu the legislature, to dispense with jaw; and then it is not 30 much a dispensation as a change of the law.
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