Legal Definition and Related Resources of Dispose

To alienate or direct the ownership of property . To make over, or part of same, as by gift, sale or other means of alienation; alienate or bestow. See Bieg v Shamel, 277 P.2d 842, 129 C.A.2d 700. To dispose of a matter is to arrange or settle it finally, to determine the fate or fix the condition of, to finish with, adjust, settle and determine a matter.Sometimes said that the phrase to dispose of’ has two meanings: One is to exercise the power of control over; the other is to exercise finally one’s power of control over; to alienate. Illinois Life Ins. Co. v Beifeld, 184 III. App. 582.

To Store In An Orderly Manner. In Relation To Notarial Journal, To Store For Seven Years.

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Legal Usage of Dispose (of) in English

An European Commission document offers the following explanation about the misused of Dispose (of):the most common meaning of ‘dispose of’ is ‘to get rid of’ or ‘to throw away’; it never means ‘to have’, ‘to possess’ or ‘to have in one’s possession’. Thus, the sentence ‘The managing authority disposes of the data regarding participants’ does not mean that it has them available; on the contrary, it means that it throws them away or deletes them. Similarly, the sentence below does not mean: ‘the Commission might not have independent sources of information’, it means that the Commission is not permitted to discard the sources that it has.

Example

‘The Commission may not be able to assess the reliability of the data provided by Member States and may not dispose of independent information sources (see paragraph 39)70.’

Alternatives

have, possess, xyz is/are not available to [the Commission].

Meaning of Dispose (to) in Spanish

Description/ translation of dispose (to) into Spanish: sustanciar (un proceso); expeditious disposition of issues: tramitación de un proceso sin dilación[1]

Note: for more information on related terms and on the area of law where dispose (to) belongs (criminal procedure law), in Spanish, see here.

Notes and References

1. Translation of Dispose (to) published by Antonio Peñaranda

Resources

Further Reading

• David Mellinkoff, “Mellinkoff’s Dictionary of American Legal Usage”, West Publishing Company, 1992
• Bryan A. Garner, “A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage”, West Publishing Company, 1995