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182is reached. The third actant of absolver corresponds to the charges brought against thedefendant (pedido, acusação, etc.).(Criterion 3) Thirdly, absolver is a term because its morphological derivativesabsolvição and absolutório are terms that relate semantically to absolver. The termabsolvição occurs in the article 31 of the Portuguese Code of Penal Procedure (2010).Absolutório is one of the adjectives that qualify and distinguish verdicts: sentençaabsolutória (absolutory sentence) and sentença condenatória (condemnatory sentence).This adjective appears not only in the corpus but also in the following article of thePortuguese Code of Penal Procedure (2010):ARTIGO 461ºSentença absolutória no juízo de revisão1. Se a decisão revista tiver sido condenatória e o tribunal de revisão absolver oarguido, aquela decisão é anulada, trancado o respectivo registo e o arguidorestituído à situação jurídica anterior à condenação.Translation:Section 461Acquittal in the review1. If the reviewed decision had convicted the defendant and the review court thendecides to acquit the defendant, the former decision should be annulled, thecorresponding register should be suspended and the defendant reinstated to the legalsituation prior to conviction.(Criterion 4) Finally, absolver is a term because it relates paradigmatically to otherterms of the same subject field. As mentioned, absolver relates to condenar which can befound in the corpus. The two verbs denote two types of verdicts and they are hyponyms ofthe verb julgar (to judge).(Criterion 1) The same way, convict is one of the English candidate terms with thehighest specificity score (cf. Appendix 6) and it is quite likely a term because it has a senserelated to the subject field of law, in general, and to Criminal Law, in particular. Convict