Predispose - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: predisposepredispose
predispose -posed -pos·ing : to dispose or incline in advance ;specif : to make ready and willing to commit a crime [have been predisposed to engage in criminal behavior "W. R. LaFave and J. H. Israel"] NOTE: Predisposition on the part of a defendant vitiates the defense of entrapment. pre·dis·po·si·tion [prē-dis-pə-zi-shən] n ...
Predispose
To dispose or incline beforehand to give a predisposition or bias to as to predispose the mind to friendship...
Predisposition
The act of predisposing or the state of being predisposed previous inclination tendency or propensity predilection applied to the mind as a predisposition to anger...
entrapment
entrapment 1 : the action or process of entrapping [ is un-American and has no place in law enforcement "Tip O'Neill"] 2 : the state or condition of being entrapped ;also : the affirmative defense of having been entrapped by a government agent (as an officer or informant) see also predispose NOTE: Entrapment is available as a defense only when an agent of the state or federal government has provided the encouragement or inducement. This defense is sometimes allowed in administrative proceedings (as for the revocation of a license to practice medicine) as well as criminal proceedings. In order to establish entrapment, the defendant has the burden of proving either that he or she would not have committed the crime but for the undue persuasion or fraud of the government agent, or that the encouragement was such that it created a risk that persons not inclined to commit the crime would commit it, depending on the jurisdiction. When entrapment is pleaded, evidence (as character eviden...
Proeguminal
Serving to predispose predisposing as a proeguminal cause of disease...
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 ...
Diathesis
Bodily condition or constitution esp a morbid habit which predisposes to a particular disease or class of diseases...
VerbarOsteoporosis
An absorption of bone so that the bone tissue becomes unusually porous It occurs especially in elderly men and postmenopausal women and predisposes the elderly to fractures of the bones...
Predisponency
The state of being predisposed predisposition...
Predisponent
Disposing beforehand predisposing...
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