dispositive

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Intending to, resulting in, or capable of disposition (disposing, disposing of, or…

   Intending to, resulting in, or capable of disposition (disposing, disposing of, or settling a matter).

   • We were unable to produce any dispositive evidence to support our case.
   • ...the acquittal of the respondent on the charge of sexual assault causing bodily harm is not dispositive of the question of whether he used an object "in causing... injury" so as to make that object a weapon.
2. 2

   Being a statutory provision not mandatory to the parties, as in ius dispositivum.

   • The second salient feature of the new Labour Code was an increase in the proportion of dispositive provisions at the expense of cogent provisions which, as the subsequent legal development showed, was not quite adequate.
3. 3

   By natural disposition, having such an inclination.

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   1. 4

      Alternative form of dispositif.

      • Apollinaire thus used some of the characteristics of the cinematographic and phonographic dispositives and their variables related to viewing or listening apparatuses that preceded or are contemporary to the cinema.

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