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Instances of this class comprise official transfer of custody events undertaken following formal procedures within a social grouping leading to formal change in the custody status over an object, ascribing it to some actor's custody, according to the participating parties. The substance of declarative transfer of custody is an intentional, social act. 

Instances of ZE21 Declarative Transfer of Custody come about when the specific social procedure required is intentionally and successfully enacted according to the prevalent rules. They end with the successful termination of the act or because of its premature termination.

A successful act of declarative transfer of custody leads to the generation of an instance of ZE7 Custodial Status, the institutional fact that thereafter mediates the social relation to this object until it has been abrogated.

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