Meaning of dispositive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Intending to, resulting in, or capable of disposition (disposing, disposing of, or settling a matter).
2. Being a statutory provision not mandatory to the parties, as in ius dispositivum.
3. By natural disposition, having such an inclination.
   obsolete

Examples

“We were unable to produce any dispositive evidence to support our case.”

“...the acquittal of the respondent on the charge of sexual assault causing bodily harm is not dispositive of the question of whether he used an object "in causing... injury" so as to make that object a weapon.”

“The problem—or one of them, anyway—is that customers hate dynamic pricing almost as much as they hate normal price increases. […] But as it stands, dynamic pricing is largely regarded as legal, as long as sellers don't use protected characteristics such as race or gender to determine what buyers will pay. The algorithmic nature of dynamic pricing also gives sellers plausible deniability; who's to say which data points were dispositive? The main risk for retailers is one of perception.”

“Controversies about his past loutishness should not be dispositive when deciding whether he should be confirmed. There are ample other reasons to reject his nomination.”

“The second salient feature of the new Labour Code was an increase in the proportion of dispositive provisions at the expense of cogent provisions which, as the subsequent legal development showed, was not quite adequate.”

“The VCLT is also applicable to treaties that are the constituent instrument of an international organisation and to treaties that have been adopted within an international organisation (Art 5 VCLT). However, in this (as well as other respect(s)), the VCLT is of a dispositive nature. The rules that apply in the first place are the rules of the international organisation itself as established under its constituent instrument and internal law. Thus, when a constituent treaty of an international organisation does not contain any provisions concerning the termination of membersip, the rules of the VCLT become relevant (Art. 56 VCLT).”

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