title: The role of language in providing intelligibility and certainty of normative legal acts
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metadata.value: Belov, Sergei A.
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-09-20T18:24:50Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-09-20T18:24:50Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Belov, Sergei A. 2022. “The role of language in providing intelligibility and certainty of normative legal acts”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Law 2: 293–308.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu14.2022.201
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37842
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Clearness (intelligibility) and certainty of content are required from normative legal acts in
  the contemporary legal doctrine and in judicial practice (especially in the practice of constitutional
  courts). These requirements primarily concern language of texts of normative legal
  acts, as most lawyers find guarantees of accessibility for understanding by most of addressees in the textual fixation of legal norms. The question of how texts of normative legal acts can
  provide this — the question lying on the border between law and linguistic — is not answered
  today. Lawyers focus on ways and means of interpretation of texts, and these ways and
  means are treated as universal principles and dogma, but this is a solution for extraction of
  legal norm that often does not guarantee certainty and usually does not provide intelligibility.
  This article demonstrates rules of making normative acts which can provide intelligibility
  and certainty as interconnected but autonomous and independent requirements to legal texts
  basing on joint legal-linguistic researches of intelligibility and certainty of legal texts. There is
  a tension between requirements of intelligibility and certainty, though it should not be exaggerated,
  as the effective measures providing these two do not conflict and could be realized
  together. Fulfilling these requirements working out all normative acts should be accompanied
  with description of their meta-normative parameters, inter alia — description of addressees of
  normative prescriptions of norms of these acts as well as signs of occurrences, conditions and
  circumstances significant for the content of legal norms and its applying.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The reported study was funded by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, project No. 19-18-
  00525 “Understandability of the official Russian: Legal and linguistic issues”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Law;Volume 13; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal certainty
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intelligibility of official documents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: normative acts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: making legal documents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: legal communication
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: language of legal documents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: intelligibility of legal language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: difficulties of understanding of documents
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The role of language in providing intelligibility and certainty of normative legal acts
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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