dispositives

Adjective

dispositive (comparative more dispositive, superlative most dispositive)

1. Intending to, resulting in, or capable of disposition (disposing, disposing of, or settling a matter).
   • We were unable to produce any dispositive evidence to support our case.
2. (Euro-English or non-native speakers' English) Being a statutory provision not mandatory to the parties, as in ius dispositivum.
   • 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.2006, prof. JUDr. Helena Barancová, DrSc., Termination of Employment Relationship: Legal Situation in the Slovak Republic, Brussels: European Commission – Directorate General for Employment, Social...

   Antonyms:

   cogent

3. (obsolete) By natural disposition, having such an inclination.