Stylistic Features of the Old Belarusian Private Law Acts of the 14th–15th Centuries in Comparison With the Old Russian

The article presents the characteristics of the stylistic organization of the Old Belarusian private law acts, created in the XIV–XV centuries, in comparison with the stylistic organization of the Old Russian private law acts. The texts are considered, the genre of which is defined as contributions, spiritual, bills of sale. The structural and semantic organization of these texts is analyzed, formulas and label units used in them are identified and characterized, and the means used to represent textual categories of accuracy, abstraction, and imperativeness are described.