Dispensation (Catholic canon law)
Not to be confused with Dispensationalism, Dispensation (period), or Dispensation of the fulness of times.
For other uses, see Dispensation (disambiguation).
For a similar concept, see Economy (religion).
In the jurisprudence of the canon law of the Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of the law in certain cases. Its object is to modify the hardship often caused by rigorous application of general laws to particular cases, and its essence is to preserve the law by suspending its operation in such cases.
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