Disposition
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
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. 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.