Precyzja językowa aktów normatywnych w świetle zasad techniki prawodawczej
Linguistic precision of normative acts in the context of the principles of the legislative technique

Summary/Abstract: The issue of linguistic precision of normative acts is a specific combination of considerations conducted on the basis of language and law, because to the basis of the functioning of a democratic state of law belongs, among others, legislative initiative, which is the implementation that takes place in the form of a written bill, which is inseparable from the concept of legal language. The language of normative acts, due to its individuality, as well as the relationship with the principles of proper legislation, has so often been the subject of research by both linguists and lawyers. Undoubtedly, the linguistic incorrectness of a normative act, including its linguistic imprecision, disrupts communication on the sender – recipient line, makes the text incomprehensible, and even defective legally. Therefore, it is extremely important to emphasize not only the legal aspect of a normative act, but also its language layer, regulated in particular by the principles of legislative technique, which are the catalog of rules of proper legislation and define what the language of legal acts should be. The aim of the article is, therefore, to show what is meant by the linguistic precision of normative acts in the context of, above all, the principles of legislative technique. At the same time, it is an attempt to organize the current research in matter concerning the language of legal acts.

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