In any case, the legal effect is indeed a performative effect – it has real implications for the composition and constitution of our legal institutional world. Acts of performative discourse are therefore very closely linked to institutional facts, as opposed to raw facts, and are capable of creating our common institutional world. Whether an act of speech has such a performative effect, however, crucially depends on a common context in a pragmatic understanding of the meaning of language. In this context, Wittgenstein`s idea of meaning as usage implies that the performative effect depends on “a common background consisting of hidden assumptions, mutual beliefs, and a common practice that establishes the usage and thus the meaning of words and, more generally, human action”.6 10.7 This Agreement is entered into four times, each party holding a copy, with the same legal effect. This Agreement shall be drawn up in twelve copies in the Chinese and English languages, each Party in possession of one copy. All counterparties have the same legal effect. In the event of any conflict or discrepancy between the Chinese and English versions, the Chinese version shall prevail. Thorndike stressed the importance of the situation in provoking a reaction; The cat would not perform the lever pressure movement if it was not in the puzzle box, but only in a place where the reaction had never been amplified. The situation affects not only the location of the cat, but also the stimuli to which it is exposed, for example, hunger and the desire for freedom. The cat recognizes the inside of the box, the rods and the lever and remembers what it needs to do to create the right reaction. This shows that learning and the law of effect are context-specific.
5. The renewal contract is concluded in 4 copies, each party has two copies with the same legal effect. The extension agreement enters into force after sealing and signature by both parties. Legal effect in text-dictated law thus provides legal protection “by design of technology” in two respects: first, it simply provides the protection provided by the legislation in question. If this law has no legal effect, it cannot be protected by law. A fundamental right is protected by law, for example an anti-discrimination law is enacted and therefore has legal effect – in this way, the law will contribute to protection against discrimination. Second, and crucially for our purposes, this legislation provides protection by its very nature as a written act. As such, it has certain affordances that it has because of its technological embodiment: text. The multi-interpretability of human language – embodied in the technological expressions of writing and printing – provides an ever-moving target for clarifying meaning.
Meaning is constituted and reconstituted in its use, but instead of collapsing into a relativistic and subjectivist collection of “private languages”, it guides us stably and gives us the contestability that is at the heart of the rule of law. The legal effect, as conferred by the competent authorities and drawn from the sources of law, thus gives us the closure required by legal protection by technological design. We cannot assume that this kind of legal protection, guaranteed by the contestability of natural language and guaranteed by the separation of powers established by the rule of law, can be perfectly transferred to various technological incarnations in which law can be expressed. This means that the compensatory powers decisive for the rule of law must be referred to the possible new forms of existence of the law by means of legal protection through legal protection. The legal effect of car theft means that a person becomes liable to prosecution if the legal requirements for theft are met by an institution empowered to do so. This means that convicted persons may receive the penalties provided for by the substantive law of the court concerned for the offence, unless justified or excused. 6. This Agreement shall enter into force as soon as it has been signed and sealed by both Parties.
This Agreement shall be drawn up in duplicate, one copy for each Party and each copy having the same legal effect. All matters not mentioned herein shall be resolved by both parties and incorporated into additional agreements to be performed by both parties and having the same legal effect as this Agreement. The Parties may make amendments to this Agreement and attach them as an Annex. The annex (if any) and the contract have the same legal effect. 3. Both parties confirm that the ground lease signed on June 18, 2013 is still in effect, except for the payment date. That is to say, Party B still has the lease of 800 mu of agricultural land on Longgou Mountain for 30 years.
