Regulatory acts language and style as a legal technique element

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The aim of the research is to determine the features of the language style of the regulatory act, which should be subject to the law of formal logic and general requirements of the legal technique. The creation of a unified system of the law language, which would successfully function in lawmaking, is a long and controversial process. But today there is an obvious need to create such a system for effective legal regulation, to improve the legal culture of modern society, to simplify the process of law interpretation. It is proved that the raised problem should be solved in line with two sciences: linguistics and jurisprudence. The practical significance of our conclusions we express in establishing relationships between linguists, who consider this problem from the point of view of language functioning in society, and lawyers, who test the latest linguistic developments in practice, which will contribute to the optimal and prompt resolution of the problem of creating a unified system of the law language with clearly defined rules and requirements. Conclusions: the style of the regulatory act is a set of certain stamps, clichés, clear, unambiguous concepts, a set of certain rules and requirements that ensure the effectiveness of legal regulation. The style of regulations comes from compliance with the following basic requirements: 1) impersonality of the statement, that is, in the text of the regulatory act are not used personal pronouns of the first and second person, proper nouns that could point to the author of the bill; 2) the logical presentation – the legal material requires a correct and logical presentation; 3) the compactness of the presentation – the material in the regulatory act should be presented clearly, without unnecessary reasoning and deviations; 4) clarity, that is, the regulatory material must be clearly perceived by the absolute majority of people, so in the texts of regulatory acts it is impossible to use the means of artistic expression; 5) evaluation, that is, the will of the legislator is expressed in the affirmative or negative terms regarding to a certain model of behavior.

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Olga Viktorovna Belyanskaya

Tambov State University named after G.R. Derzhavin

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Email: 520877@mail.ru

Candidate of JurisprudenceAssociate ProfessorProfessor of Theory and History of State and Law Department

Russian Federation, 33 Internatsionalnaya St., Tambov 392000, Russian Federation

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