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The purpose of this essay is to analyze the metaphor of the “defect of a declaration of will” in the legal language. The secondary goal is to note that a reflection on the metaphor is a CONTAINER image schema. Simultaneously, the metaphor of the “defect of a declaration of will” is in fact a dead metaphor. This essay is also focused upon an analysis of a function fulfilled by the metaphor in normative acts, judicial decisions, and legal doctrine.