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Act of disposing; transferring to the care or possession of another. The parting with, alienation of, or giving up of property. The final settlement of a matter and, with reference to decisions announced by a court, a judge's ruling is commonly referred to as disposition, regardless of level of resolution. In Criminal Procedure, the sentencing or other final settlement of a criminal case. With respect to a mental state, means an attitude, prevailing tendency, or inclination.






in Scottish conveyancing practice the name for the deed that transfers ownership of (conveys) real or heritable property. Once it was necessary to use the word dispone, but this has not been the case for some time. To obtain a REAL RIGHT good against the world the title must be recorded in the REGISTER OF SASINES or the LAND REGISTRY.
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DISPOSITION, French law. This word has several acceptations; sometimes it signifies the effective marks of the will of some person; and at others the instrument containing those marks.
     2. The dispositions of man make the dispositions of the law to cease; for example, when a man bequeaths his estate, the disposition he makes of it, renders the legal disposition of it, if he had died intestate, to cease.

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The study was correlational, and measured problematic alcohol use, problematic cannabis use, and dispositional mindfulness in university students in September of their first year.
To measure dispositional optimism, we used the LOT-R Chinese version.
In a sample of young university students from Santiago of Chile, they did not find significant differences between men and women in dispositional optimism (Vera-Villarroel, Cordova-Rubio, & Celis-Atenas, 2009).
The Dispositional Flow Scale-2 (DFS-2;Jackson and Eklund, 2002): DFS-2 includes thirty-six items and is used for assessing individual's tendency in experiencing flow in sport and exercise.
(1994, 2000) suggested that dispositional affect might influence the way that individuals understand information related to self-efficacy.
In taking interrelation as the precondition of politics, these theorists promote a dispositional ethics as the means to hear what is yet white noise and care for who is currently out of view.
Brockner and Higgins (2001) suggest that regulatory focus has two components, the dispositional and the situational.
Given the lack of association with the outcome measure of dispositional humility, age and gender were not included as covariates in the tests of the models.
The Life Orientation Test Reviewed (LOT-R) is a self-report test to measure the dispositional optimism described by Scheier et al.
Consistent with hypotheses, workplace-specific gratitude predicted emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and job satisfaction after controlling for demographic/job contextual variables, hope, and dispositional gratitude.