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Name: Performative origins of the legal term sponde̅́. On the question of the ritualization of law

Authors: Kupchenko Ulia Aleksandrovna

Novosibirsk Institute of Law Branch of Tomsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Issue 1, 2014	Pages 243-246
UDK: 67.3(0)323 + 81.053.	DOI:

Abstract: The paper considers the origin of the legal term sponde̅́, which has a performative nature. An attempt is made to describe the connection between the legal term in the Latin tradition and the Greek ritual of «libation»

Keywords: ritual, libation, stipulation, sponsion, performative formulae, contract, sponde̅́

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