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 intestate, to cease. In Scotch law. A deed of alienation by which a right to property is conveyed. Bell.