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Vinony

dispone

verb

  1. to officially or legally make over, convey, assign, grant
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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: From French, from Latin disponĕre (“to arrange”).

  1. To convey legal authority to another.

    “The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this.”

  2. To set in order; to dispose.