Dispensation

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Dispensation

Meaning of Dispensation

An exemption from some law, a permission to do something forbidden; an allowance to omit something commenced. The canonistic name for a license .

Dispensation Alternative Definition

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.

Synonyms of Dispensation

(Act of dispensing), noun

  • accommodation
  • administration
  • allocation
  • allotment
  • appointment
  • apportionment
  • assignment
  • bestowal
  • bestowment
  • conferment
  • conferral
  • dispersal
  • dispersion
  • disposal
  • disposition
  • dissemination
  • distribution
  • division
  • fair sharing
  • impartation
  • impartment
  • issuance
  • partition
  • presentation
  • presentment
  • provision
  • repartition
  • share
  • subvention
  • transfer

(Exception), noun

  • absolution
  • acquiescence
  • allowance
  • amnesty
  • approval
  • authorization
  • carte blanche
  • certificate of exemption
  • clearance
  • congé
  • consent
  • deliberate omission
  • escapeclause
  • exception
  • exception in favor of
  • exclusion
  • exculpation
  • excuse
  • exemption
  • exemption from law
  • exoneration
  • forgiveness
  • freedom
  • grace
  • grant
  • immunity
  • indulgence
  • leave
  • liberty
  • license
  • noninclusion
  • nonliability
  • nonresponsibility
  • omission
  • pardon
  • permission
  • permit
  • privilege
  • relaxation of law
  • release from obligation
  • sanction
  • special privilege
  • sufferance
  • tolerance
  • toleration
  • warrant
  • Associated Concepts: concession
  • franchise
  • special dispensation

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Etimology of Dispensation

Late 14c., from Old French despensacion (12c., Modern French dispensation), or directly from Latin dispensationem (nominative dispensatio) “management, charge,” noun of action from past participle stem of dispensare “disburse, administer, distribute (by weight)” (see dispense). Theological sense is from the use of the word to translate Greek oikonomoia “office, method of administration.”

Grammar

This term is a noun.

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