Linguistic and legal comprehensibility of the text

Abstract

The present article pays attention to the comprehensibility oflegal text. Comprehensibility is discussed here both in the legal context as a requirement for the legal language enshrined in Czech legislation, and from the linguistic point ofview as a requirement for the legal language within its functional style. The practical analysis of comprehensibi­lity is performed here, both on the basis of objective measurement of certain elements of the text using the formula LIX and subjective measurement using the Hamburg model of compr