1. K. Olivecrona, Law as a Fact, second edition, London, 1971, 217 ff. This second edition is a completely rewritten version of the first edition, published in 1939.
2. Austin first invited attention to the notion in an article appearing in 1946 under the title ‘Other Minds’. Cf. J.L. Austin, Philosophical Papers, Oxford, 1961, 71. More elaborate accounts are to be found in Austin’s BBC-lecture ‘Performative Utterances’, also published in Philosophical Papers, 220 ff. and in his lecture notes posthumously edited by J.O. Urmson under the title, How to Do Things with Words, Cambridge (Mass.), 1962.
3. Austin (1961), 222; Austin (1962), 5.
4. Olivecrona (1971), 218.
5. Ibid., 221.