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264sentence, i.e. It announces rewards and punishments, evokes the [Granting] and the[Verdict] frames. The FE LAW is mandatory in the frames [Order] and [Authorization] andthe FE JUDGE, the representative of LAW, is mandatory in the frames [Granting] and[Verdict].Also underlined in the definition is the idea that the law includes the decisions ofcourts of justice, as well as acts of the legislature. Although we mentioned in the first partof chapter 4 that the decisions of courts of justice have a more important weight on thedeterminations of Canadian judges, we can observe from the comparison between Table 34and Tabela 35 that the decisions of courts of justice occur as instantiations of the FE LAWin both the English and Portuguese corpora (e.g. decision and decisão).Table 34. Linguistic realizations of the core FE LAW in the English corpus