An exemption from some laws; a permission to do somethingforbidden; an allowance to omit something commanded; the canonistic name for alicense. Wharton; Baldwin r. Taylor, 160 Pa. 507, 31 Atl. 250; Viele v. Insurance Co., 26 Iowa, 56, 96 Am. Dec. 83.A relaxation of law for the benefit or advantage of an individual . In the UnitedStates, no power exists, except in the legislature , to dispense with law; and then it isnot so much a dispensation as a change of the law. Bouvier.
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