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
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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
DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE
Dismissal with prejudice which bars the complainant or plaintiff to sue again on the same cause of action. … [Read more...] about DISMISSAL WITH PREJUDICE
DISPARK
To dissolve a park. Cro. Car. 59. To convert it into ordinary ground. … [Read more...] about DISPARK
DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Dismissal without prejudice to the right of the complainant or plaintiff to sue again on the same cause of action. The effect of the words … [Read more...] about DISMISSAL WITHOUT PREJUDICE