Dispositive Facts
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Such as originate, transfer, or extinguish rights, known respectively as investitive, translative, and divestitive facts. These terms were coined by Bentham, and have not found their way into general use. Holland, Jur. 131.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
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.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Such as produce or bring about the origination, transfer, or extinclion of rights. They are either ¢nvestilive, those by means of whieh a right comes into existence, divestitive, those through which it terminates, or transiative, those through whieh it passes from one person to another.