ABSTRACT
The Gordian relationship between law and language is a ‘neverending story’. The language of the law is, for the most part, a language of traditions that is a language whose function is primarily to transmit a set of immemorial traditions (Goodrich 1990). Legal language is thus inscribed in history. Yet it is capable of renewing itself for the reason that the specialist nature of its lexicon is closely intertwined with the evolving social function of the law (Mattila 2006). In that sense, legal language is plurifunctional and pluridimensional.
