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An instance of obligation status demarks a socially recognized state of obligation holding between two parties, wherein the first party is recognized to have the requirement to fulfill a debt to the second party for a certain measurable amount. The substance of the obligation status is the commitment from one party to another for compensation in a socially recognized form.

Instances of obligation status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance of so-recognizing this status, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act [e.g.: ZE27 Declaration of Obligation) initiating this status.

Instances of obligation status may come to be through a formal process such as an act of declaring obligation [ZE27 Declaration of Obligation), or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of obligation may end either though a formal process, such as an act of renunciation, or may simply fade out of use, be eliminated by fiat or be of unknown reason.

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