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involving or affecting disposition or settlement

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Usage examples (38)
  • Adjective : a dispositive clue in a case of embezzlement
  • I'm not running around saying "dispositive" all the time, but if I feel my anglophone friend can understand me, I'll use the word.
  • In that case, we held that a public use had occurred, finding "dispositive" the fact that the patentee
  • I don't think that 2006, by itself, is dispositive.
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