What is characterization?

The problem (the first-step's-trap): the category's-classification (the question's-nature (the "what-is-this-issue?" (the rule's-selection-depends-on-the-label))); the classic-examples (the Malta- marriage's-lore (the nullity-vs-the-succession's (the capacity-or-the-form)))); The approaches (the exam's-menu): the lex-fori (the forum's-own-labels (the majority's-practice (the practical (the court's-comfort)))); the lex-causae (the law's-own-label (the circularity's-critique)); the comparative-and-the-autonomous (the international-concepts (the Rome's-autonomous-reading (the treaties'-method))); the subtler's-issues (the incidental-question (the main-issue's-dependency (the preliminary's-own-choice))); the time's-element (the characterization-when (the changing- category's)).