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Dispense

To deal out in portions to distribute to give as the steward dispenses provisions according directions Nature dispenses her bounties to dispense medicines...

Dispensation

Dispensation, an exemption from some laws, a per-mission to do something forbidden, an allowance to omit something commanded, the canonistic name for a license. See also BILL OF RIGHTS....

Dispenser

One who or that which dispenses a distributer as a dispenser of favors...

dispensed

distributed or weighed out in carefully determined portions as medicines dispensed to the sick...

Dispensator

A distributer a dispenser...

Dispensableness

Quality of being dispensable...

Dispensable

Capable of being dispensed or administered...

Non-obstante

Non-obstante (notwithstanding), a licence from the Crown to do that which could not be lawfully done without it. Also, a clause frequent in statutes and letters-patent, importing a licence from the Crown to do a thing, which by Common Law might be done, but, being restrained by Act of Parliament, could not be done without such licence, Plowd. 501.But the doctrine of non-obstante, which sets the prerogative above the law, was effectually demolished by the Bill of Rights at the Revolution of 1688, which enacts that no dispensation, by non obstante of or to any statute, or any prt thereof, shall be allowed, but that the same shall be held void and of none effect, except a dispensation be allowed in such statute.A non-obstante clause is a legislative device usually employed to give overriding effect to certain provisions over some contrary provisions that may be found either in the same enactment or some other enactment, that is to say, to avoid the operation and effect of all contrary pro...

Cession

Cession, a ceasing, yielding up, or giving over. By 21 Hen. 8, c. 13 (repealed by the Pluralities Act, 1838 (1 & 2 Vict. c. 106), if any one having a benefice of 8l. per annum, or upwards, accepted any other, the first was adjudged void, unless he obtained a dispensation. A vacancy thus made, for want of a dispensation, was called cession. See Plurality....

Service

Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...

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