Skip to content

Did you mean: disposition?


Dispositive - Law Dictionary Search Results

Home Dictionary Name: dispositive

Disposition

Disposition, giving away or giving up by a person of something which was his own, Commissioner of Gift Tax v. N.S. Getty Chettiar (1971) 2 SCC 741: AIR 1971 SC 2410: (1972) 1 SCR 736 & Controller of Estates Duty v. Kancharla Kesava Rao, (1973) 2 SCC 384: AIR 1973 SC 2484: (1973) 3 SCR 897.Disposition in the estate duty law of India enjoys and extended meaning. The framers of the Estate Duty Act,1953 desired by a deeming provision regarding 'disposition' to cover extinguishments of debts and all other rights at the expense of and made by the deceased in favour of the beneficiary. The substantive definition of 'property' in s. 2(15) is not exhaustive but only inclusive and the supplementary operation of Explanation 2 takes in which is not conventionally regarded as 'disposition'. Indeed, 'disposition', even accord-ing to law dictionaries, embraces 'the parting with, alienation of, or giving up property.... a destruction of property' (Black's Legal Dictionary), Controller of Estate Duty v...


Disposition of the company's property

Disposition of the company's property, where a company pays a creditor by cheque between the date of petition and the winding up order against the company, it is illogical to hold that there is an additional disposition in favour of the bank where the company is in credit prior to payment of the cheque and the bank, in paying the cheque, debits the cheque against the company's credit balance with the bank, Hollicourt (Contracts) Ltd. v. Bank of Ireland (CA), (2001) Ch LR 555.A control for the disposition of land and an effected disposition; that the expression 'sold, leased or otherwise disposed of by a disposition' was not apt to include a contract to make a disposition of land but referred only to a disposition which had actually been effected, Boyoumi v. Women's Total Abstinence Union Ltd., (2003) 2 WLR (Charities Act, 1993, s. 37)...


Disposition of company property

Disposition of company property, where a com-pany withdraws a sum of money from its bank account in credit and pays that sum to a third party, there is a disposition of the company property which , if it occurs after the commencement of the winding up is avoided by s. 127, Hollicourt (Contracts) Ltd. v. Bank of Ireland, (2001) 2 WLR 290.Disposition of company property, where a company withdraws a sum of money from its bank account in credit and pays that sum to a third party, there is a disposition of the Company's Property, Hollicourt (Contracts) Ltd. v. Bank of Ireland, (2000) 1 WLR 895....


Testamentary disposition

Testamentary disposition, the testamentary disposi-tion, would mean disposition of the property which would take effect after the death, instead of eo instanti on the execution of the document. A testamentary disposition is generally effected by a will or by a codicil which means an instrument made in relation to a will extending, altering or adding to its disposition and is to be deemed to form part of the will, Pavitri Devi v. Darsari Singh, (1993) 4 SCC 392 (396)....


dispositive

dispositive 1 : directed toward or effecting a disposition (as of a case) [an endless variety of …pretrial motions "Robert Shaw-Meadow"] 2 : relating to a disposition of property [ words in a will] 3 : providing a final resolution (as of an issue) : having control over an outcome [ of the question] ...


Dispositioned

Having such a disposition used in compounds as well dispositioned...


Dispositively

In a dispositive manner by natural or moral disposition...


Order and Disposition

Order and Disposition of goods and chattels; when goods are in the order and disposition of a bankrupt, they go to his trustee, and have gone so since the time of James I. See BILL OF SALE, and Bankruptcy Act, 1914, s. 38; REPUTED OWNER; HIRE-PURCHASE....


disposition

disposition 1 a : the final determination of a matter (as a case or motion) by a court or quasi-judicial tribunal [the beneficiary of such a of charges against him "United States v. Smith, 354 A.2d 510 (1976)"] compare decision, holding, judgment, opinion, ruling, verdict b : the sentence given to a convicted criminal defendant [probation is often a desirable "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] ;also : the sentence given to or treatment prescribed for a juvenile offender 2 : transfer to the care, possession, or ownership of another [to either a surviving spouse or a charity, those s are totally exonerated from the payment of taxes "Matter of McKinney, 477 N.Y.S.2d 367 (1984)"] ;also : the power of such transferral 3 : the state or condition of being predisposed : predisposition ...


Disposition

The act of disposing arranging ordering regulating or transferring application disposal as the disposition of a mans property by will...


  • << Prev.

Sign-up to get more results

Unlock complete result pages and premium legal research features.

Start Free Trial

Save Judgments// Add Notes // Store Search Result sets // Organize Client Files //