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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 fulfil 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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