Disposition
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Disposition: Determination of a charge; termination of any legal action.
Dissent: The disagreement of one or more judges of a court with the decision of the majority.
Docket: Book containing entries of all proceedings in a court.
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.
Testamentary Disposition at Legal Glossary What is it? Leaving property in a will.
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DISPOSITION
(1) Determination of a charge; termination of any legal action. (2) A sentence of a juvenile offender.
DISSENT
The disagreement of one or more judges of a court with the decision of the majority.
disposition - The order of a juvenile court determining what is to be done with a minor already adjudged to be within the court's jurisdiction. In criminal cases, the settlement of a case.
disposition: the result of a judicial proceeding by withdrawal, settlement, order, judgment or sentence
dissolution of marriage: the effect of a judgment of dissolution of marriage is to restore the parties to the state of unmarried persons ...
dispositional report - In Juvenile Court, a written report relating to the child's mental, physical, and social history, ...
Disposition: The manner in which a case is settled or resolved.
Dissolution: The legal end of a marriage, also called a divorce.
Disposition
The sentencing or other final settlement of a case.
Disposition report to DHSMV
A report to the Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles on the court adjudication in a traffic case.
Disposition - The parting with, alienation of, or giving up property. In criminal procedure, the sentencing or other final settlement of a criminal case.
Disposition/Receipt Card - Written report of the judge's action in a case.
disposition Final result, or termination, of a trial; usually refers to the sentence or other punishment imposed following a criminal or juvenile court case; a disposition hearing is a hearing in a juvenile court case, ...
DISPOSITION -- Determination of a case, whether by dismissal, plea and sentence, settlement and dismissal, verdict and judgment.
HABIT
A disposition or condition of the body or mind acquired by custom or a frequent repetition of the same act. See 2 Mart. Lo. Rep. N.... more ...
"Summary disposition is ... available ... when immediate punishment is necessary to put an end to acts disrupting the proceedings, such as threats to the judge, disturbances in the courtroom or insolencebefore the court." ...
Property disposition
Lapse and anti-lapse
Ademption Â- Abatement
Satisfaction of legacies ...
testamentary disposition
n. how the terms of a will divide the testator's (will writer's) ...
testamentary trust
n. a trust created by the terms of a will. Example: "The residue ...
plea bargaining - The process whereby the accused and the prosecutor in a criminal case work out a mutually satisfactory disposition of the case subject to court approval.
There has at times been a disposition by judges in colonial courts to use the process of the court to punish criticisms on their acts by counsel or parties or even outsiders, which the privy council has been prone to discourage.
" Will A written and signed statement, made by an individual, which provides for the disposition of their property when they die.
in law, document expressing the wishes of a person (known as a testator) concerning the disposition of her property after her death. If a person dies intestate, i.e.
Administration - The management and disposition of an estate having no executor.
a in the civil law of Louisiana : a disposition not in trust by which a donee, heir, or legatee is charged to hold property transferred and return it to a third person
compare fidei commissum vulgar substitution
Substitutions are prohibited.
Judgment: The final disposition of a lawsuit. Default judgment is a judgment rendered because of the defendant's failure to answer or appear.
Detention - The secure temporary care of a child who requires custody for his or her own welfare or the community's protection pending disposition or trial by the court or execution of an order of the court for placement or commitment.
Testamentary: Providing for the disposition of property after death by a will and therefore in accordance with the personal desires of decedent.
withheld judgment: A criminal disposition in which a judge does not impose a judgment of conviction but grants probation and imposes other conditions deemed appropriate.
A disposition by an appellate court that results in sending the case back to the original court from which it came for further proceedings.
Reply - Pleading by the plaintiff in response to the defendant's written answer.
has plenary power over the devolution of the title and the distribution of the intestate's property; and yet, presumably, the rules of descent and distribution are in accord with the intestate's intention, for the statutory intestate disposition may ...
Dispositions by will may also be regarded as consensual transactions, since the effect of a will is to provide for the distribution of the deceased person's property to nominated beneficiaries.
Plea Bargaining or Plea Negotiating: The process through which an accused person and a prosecutor negotiate a mutually satisfactory disposition of a case.
Dismiss: The termination of a case without a final disposition of the matter.
Dissolution of Marriage: A legal judgment that severs a marriage relationship and returns each person to single status.
Dissolution: The legal end of a marriage.
WILL A signed and witnessed document by which a person makes a disposition of real and personal property, to take effect after death and which by its own nature is revocable during a person's lifetime.
This may be because the testator failed to make a will at all; or because his will does not make any effective disposition of property (total intestacy); or because his will effectively disposes of some, but not all, ...
in fee-simple, or tenent in fee, is he that has lands, tenements, or hereditaments, to hold to him and his heirs forever - generally, absolutely and simply; without mentioning what heirs, but referring that to his own pleasure or to the disposition ...
interlocutoryTemporary. Often used to describe a court order that is not a final disposition of the case but only decides some point in it.
The identity of persons who handle evidence between the time of commission of the alleged offence and the ultimate disposition of the case.
The sovereign is head of the armed forces, and, although much of the law governing these is now statutory, their disposition generally remains a matter for the prerogative.
These include waiting for the disposition of a cited prior pending application to be determined or waiting for an assignment of ownership to be recorded. Applicants do not need to respond to suspension letters.
criminal defendant enters a plea; in a felony case, the proceeding after the indictment or bindover at which the defendant comes before a judge in district court, is informed of the charges, enters a plea, and has a date set for trial or disposition.
DispositionA judicial officer's decision. (see "Judgment")DiversionIn criminal law, removal of a case from the usual process. The police or Crown attorney may divert a case if certain conditions are met.
 See also: Law, Person, Will, State, Court
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