Université de Montréal - Thèse sous forme numérique

231as Prata (2005) and Prata et al. (2010) or in the corpus. Nevertheless, these verbs wereselected because they meet all other criteria and because we considered that they wererelevant in the judgments. These verbs correspond to 10% of the total amount of selectedterms.For instance, the contexts below show that exarar means to formally write adecision. In the context of the judgments issued by the STJ, the action of exarar is typicallycarried out by somebody with the authority to write an official document such as a legalopinion or a court‘s decision.[1] A Ex.ma Magistrada do Ministério Público neste Supremo exarou douto«parecer», no qual propugnou pela procedência da revista.Translation:The Crown prosecutor drew up an opinion in which he requested that the appealproceeds.[2] Após o julgamento, foi exarada sentença que, julgando a acção parcialmenteprocedente, decidiu: a) declarar a ilicitude do despedimento do autor, condenandoa ré a reconhecer essa ilicitude;Translation:After the trial, the judge drew up a sentence determining the partial proceeding ofthe action in which he decided to declare illegal the petitioner‘s dismissal andcommit the defendant to acknowledge that illegality;Although this verb has general language synonyms such as escrever (to write) andlavrar (to draw up), we did not find any synonym that is accepted as a term of the subjectfield of law. What is more, even the general synonyms escrever and lavrar cannot alwaysreplace or be replaced by exarar because their actants are different (A criança escreveu otexto but *A criança exarou o texto). As the use of this verb seems to be specialized wedecided to retain it.