FROM THE FORMATION HISTORY OF THE UKRAINIAN TERMINOLOGY OF FAMILY LAW: TERMINOLOGY OF THE FAMILY, GUARDIANSHIP AND MARRIAGE LAW AND ACTS OF CIVIL STATUS OF 1926

Abstract

The article considers formation ways of Ukrainian terminology of family law on the example of the term-units of the Family Code, guardianship and marriage and on acts of civil status in 1926 in the projection on its following editions (1938, 1940) and the current Family Code of Ukraine (2004). Based on the “Russian-Ukrainian Dictionary of Legal language “ed. A. Krymsky (1926) and the studios of lawyers of the early 20th century the body of the family and marriage law terms was established. It forms five basic term groups on a thematic principle: “Partner of family relationships”; “Guardianship “; “State institutions and organization “; “Marriage”; “Missing or deceased person”. It is noted that the Code of 1926 reflects linguistic and extra-linguistic trends of the time.
The thesis is formulated about the time of “Ukrainization” which played an important role in the foundation and development of the Ukrainian literature language and terminology, in particular the terminology of family law and marriage law. The code language of 1926 reflects the spelling, derivational and grammatical norms of the day which were recorded by Ukrainian orthography (1929). The attention is concentrated on the heterogeneity of the family-marital law term composition, which was formed mainly due to the influence of the general legal, civil, criminal law terms as well as stylistically marked vocabulary, which is a component of analytical term units.
The Code is rich on term–variants, the most numerous group of which is composed of word-forming, semantic and lexical terms-variants. Phonetic and grammatical term variants are also recorded in the Code text of 1926. The main attention is focused on the gradual change in the language of the Code of 1926 sequence editions (1938, 1940), which occurred due to the adaptation of the Ukrainian language norms to Russian.