Of sound mind, capable of understanding. … [Read more...] about DISPOSING MIND AND MEMORY
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DISREGARDING THE CORPORATE VEIL
To act as if the corporation was not truly a separate entity, see piercing the corporate veil. … [Read more...] about DISREGARDING THE CORPORATE VEIL
DISPOSITION
French law. This word has several acceptations; sometimes it signifies the effective marks of the will of some person; and at others the instrument containing those marks. 2. The dispositions of man make the dispositions of the law to cease; for example, when a man bequeaths his estate, the disposition he makes of it, renders the legal disposition of it, if he had died … [Read more...] about DISPOSITION
DISPOSITIVE FACTS
Such as produce or bring about the origination, transfer, or extinction of rights. They are either investitive, those by means of which a right comes into existence, divestitive, those through which it terminates, or translative, those through which it passes from one person to another. … [Read more...] about DISPOSITIVE FACTS
DISPOSSESS
To take away possession of real property, either legally or illegally by force. … [Read more...] about DISPOSSESS
