The research into the lexical component of the articles devoted to crimes against property is based on the functional-role principle of assorting nominative units, since it allows the researcher to analyze the lexical material comparatively taking into account the logical operations employed for categorizing the vocabulary used to describe the reference zone. Lexical clusters related to the semantic field "Crimes against Property" are distinguished. Hyper-hyponymic relations are identified as a

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... regular type of lexical-semantic relations within the terminological subsystem of criminal law, which covers crimes against property. Among the mechanisms of nomination, the specification of the significative meaning of the nominative unit through the introduction of an additional lexeme, functional transfer, metonymy and conversion are pinpointed.