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predominant-purpose test. An assessment of whether Article 2 of the UCC applies to an exchange, conducted by considering whether the exchange’s chief aspect, viewed in light of all the circumstances, is the sale of goods. • If goods account for most of the exchange’s value, it is probably a sale; if services account for most…

predominant-aspect test. See PREDOMINANT-PURPOSE TEST. [Blacks Law 8th]    

predisposition. A person’s inclination to engage in a particular activity; esp., an inclination that vitiates a criminal defendant’s claim of entrapment. [Cases: Criminal Law 37(4); C.J.S. Criminal Law § 62.] [Blacks Law 8th]

predictive theory of law. The view that the law is nothing more than a set of predictions about what the courts will decide in given circumstances. • This theory is embodied in Holmes’s famous pronouncement, “The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the…

prediction theory. 1.BAD-MAN THEORY. 2.PREDICTIVE THEORY OF LAW. [Blacks Law 8th]

predicate offense. 1. See lesser included offense under OFFENSE(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

predicate fact. See FACT. [Blacks Law 8th]

predicate act. 1. See predicate offense under OFFENSE(1).2. See lesser included offense under OFFENSE(1).3. Under RICO, one of two or more related acts of racketeering necessary to establish a pattern. See RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS ACT . [Cases: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations 5, 103.] [Blacks Law 8th]

predial tithe. See TITHE. [Blacks Law 8th]

predial servitude. See servitude appurtenant under SERVITUDE(2). [Blacks Law 8th]