Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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DISPOSITION, n. Sc. law: a deed of conveyance, an assignation of property. Also †dispositione.Sc. 1722 in Sc. N. and Q. (Nov. 1931) 202:
Item, Ane dispositione and translation on the saids lands granted to the sd William Innes to Mr Alexander Innes.Sc. 1845 Stat. Acc.2 I. 581:
By the trust-disposition and settlement of Alexander Mitchell, baker in the Canongate of Edinburgh, the rents of his property . . . are to constitute a fund or establishment.Sc. 1947 Scotsman (8 July):
Mrs Lindsay thereafter consented to a disposition on the subjects in favour of Eli Harris, commission agent.Ork. 1771 P. Fea MS. Diary (May):
Jo Hedell came to Stove about signing the Disspositions to the land sold.Hdg. 1701 Rec. Sc. Cloth Manuf. (S.H.S. 1905) 266:
Robert Johnstone, marchant in Edinburgh, haveing produced ane dispositione granted by Mr William Aitchisone in London deceast to him.
Hence dispositive clause, the operative clause of a deed by which property is conveyed (Sc. 1946 A. D. Gibb Sc. Legal Terms 29).Sc. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scot. (1903) ii. iii. 9:
In the dispositive clause of a charter the subjects made over are described either by special boundaries or march-stones . . . or by such other characters as may sufficiently distinguish them.
