The conceptual model of the world as a result of ethnospecific activities of the mental phenomenon - the human
consciousness - is consistent with the language picture of the world forming a complex linguosemiotic phenomenon
in the shape of a relevant legal discourse. This means that the legal consciousness as a form of reflecting the real
world (a model of the world) is conceptualized in the language or in the discourse and thus it is possible to describe
the corresponding fragment of the picture of the world by means of lingual signs. The lingual denominations which
were registered in the Old English vocabulary and in the texts of legal documents of the early medieval period denote
the three objects of law: human life, land, and property. These denominations reflect the making and the dynamic
cognitive assimilation by the Anglo-Saxons of the concepts of legitimate and non-legitimate attitude to the
objects of property.
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