Specifics of translating english legal documents
The article discusses the problem and characteristic features of the of legal documents' translation. As law and jurisprudence are an important segment of the society that interacts with many foreign communities, companies, corporations and scholars, learning and teaching the language of law at the present becomes one of the priority areas of linguistics - legal linguistics. The aim of the article is to identify linguistic and legal specifics of a translator's work with foreign language legal documents to perform adequate translation of legal texts. The authors describe the issue of adequate translation of English legal documents into the Russian language using a descriptive method, comparative and contrastive. Getting to work on translation of legal documents into the Russian language, a translator should, first of all, to find English equivalents for the terms for precise, adequate translation, to find partially equivalent terms and deceptive cognates. When working with legal documents, a translator must also take into account their drafted forms in the English and Russian law. As a result, the authors found some formal differences of legal documents in the two languages and their linguistic dissimilarities.