ISSUES OF USING THE LEGAL TERMINOLOGY

Abstract

One of the most important issues of legislative technology is the language of legislation, in which one of the most significant roles belongs to legal terminology. Today the problem of applying and improving legal terminology in the national legislation is more important than ever before due to the switch to the Latin alphabet which states the new course of rapid integration into the world community.

This article aims to identify the problems of legal terminology used in legislative acts, as well as the requirements for legal terminology.

The article notes that incorrect use of terminology in legal acts is one of the reasons that lead to inaccuracies and ambiguities of legal texts and different interpretation of norms.

The authors, having pointed out some examples of terminology that does not correspond to the content and form of legal concepts, indicate the ways of elimination of such mistakes- compliance with the requirements of terminology and language norms. Monitoring of the existing regulatory legal acts, that concentrates on terminological shortcomings, and linguistic expertise for the authenticity of draft legal acts are another methods that need to be mentioned.

The authors point out the requirements to the terminology analysis and note the importance of terminology compliance with regulatory legal acts for ensuring the accuracy and correctness of content.