avoidance of disposition order
An order by the High Court preventing or setting aside a transaction by a husband or wife that was made to defeat his (or her) spouse’s claim to financial provision. A transaction, such as a gift, made within three years before the application is presumed to have been made in order to defeat the spouse’s claim if its effect would be to defeat her claim. But a sale of property to a purchaser in good faith will not be set aside.

• shifting use
• ship
• shipwreck
• shock
• shoplifting
• short cause list
• short notice
• short title
• sickness benefit
• sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas
• signature of treaty
• signature of will
• silence
• silk
• similar-fact evidence
• simple contract
• simple trust
• simpliciter
• sine die
• single administrative document
• Single European Act
• Single Market
• single-member company
• single-union agreement
• sittings