Protocol of an agreement between the United States of America and the Republic of Salvador for the arbitration of certain claims against Salvador, signed at Washington, December 19, 1901

1966 ◽  
pp. 459-461
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daria Zozula

Abstract Researchers studying the language of law agree that there is a number of certain features which are characteristic of the legal genre, regardless of the language of the legal text. Among the most commonly listed features of lingua legis are: conventionalised sentences, performative verbs, Latinisms, euphemisms, and time expressions. The paper provides a discussion of these features, as well as provides examples of their occurrence in Polish, English, and Indonesian legal texts. The analised corpus includes the 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia, the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, The Constitution of the United States of America with amendments, Polish and Indonesian Civil Codes (clauses concerning obligations), together with a set of parallel texts of rental agreements and real estate sale contracts.


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