Mesnings of "disposal" and "dispose of". As per BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY TENTH EDITION, “disposal” means a patent application’s termination by ...............

 2024 YLR 2568

Mesnings of "disposal" and "dispose of".

As per BLACK’S LAW DICTIONARY TENTH EDITION, “disposal” means a patent application’s termination by withdrawal, rejection, or grant. In some countries, the meaning is limited to “rejection”. It further explains as under;

“2. A final settlement or determination < the court’s disposition of the case> while explaining the “informal disposition”. The termination of a case by means other than trial; any action that leads to disposition without conviction and without a judicial determination of guilt, such as guilty pleas and decisions not to prosecute while “disposition without a trial” is explained; ‘the final determination of a criminal case without a trial on the merits, as when a defendant pleads guilty or admits sufficient facts to support a guilty finding without a trial.

The “OXFORD PAPERBACK THESAURUS, INDIAN EDITION” at page 239 shows informal meaning of dispose of as “get shut of”.

Per the FIFTH EDITIION, The AMERICAN HERITAGE DISCTIONAY of the English Language.

“The word dispose also means; To determine the course of events: and dispose of means; To finish dealing with something; settle”:

Having benefit from the information mentioned supra, in view of this Court, by disposing of some matter may not mean decision on merit yet the expression of desire to withdraw the petition after arguments and the order disposed of accordingly, does mean that the matter was contested but as the petitioner agrees to withdraw his bail petition instead of getting it dismissed on merit, he preferred to get it ended without any formal, detailed and reasoned order or formal decision of the Court. So, in other words, the order “learned counsel for the petitioner wishes to withdraw this petition after arguments. Disposed of accordingly” means that subject petition terminated, settled, ended, concluded or closed as desired by the learned counsel for the petitioner after arguments and consideration of the merits of the case.

Crl. Misc.62426/23

Muhammad Saqlain Vs The State etc.