El papel de los latinismos en terminología jurídica
The Role of Latinisms in Legal Terminology

Summary/Abstract: If any society requires a regulating legal system which establishes certain norms of conduct within any specific community, then Law is conditioned, not only in orientation, but also in functioning, terminology and progress, by social principles, religious beliefs, ethic convictions, ideology, and political, technical, economic or cultural values belonging to that society. In this way, the legal concepts acquire a concrete significance throughout a particular social order and define the prevailing monocultural nature of Law, apart from sciences’ universalism. On the contrary, this paper studies a part of Law which has a multicultural level, due to its linguistic constancy. We refer to the Latinisms still applied nowadays in law texts as a firm evidence of the Roman Law, the oldest core of all European legal systems. Their peculiarity and legitimacy in Law texts raise important issues about its reception, usage and translation.

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