An exemption from some laws; a permission to do something forbidden; an allowance to omit something commanded; the canonistic name for a license. Wharton; Baldwin v. Taylor, 166 Pa. 507, SI Atl. 250; Viele Insurance Co., 26 Iowa, 56, 06 Am. Dec. 83.
A relaxation of law for the benefit or advantage of an individual. In the United States, no power exists, except in the legislature, to dispense with law; and then it is not so much a dispensation as a change of the law. Bouvier.