Hypertextuality of legal text as a comprehension problem

This article attempts to consider a legal text in the broadest sense as a set of all the rules established and protected by the state, as hypertext, the organizational and perceptual features of which primarily complicate the comprehension of a specific, single rule of law. The authors believe that one of the key problems when interpreting a legal text is unobvious hyperlinks contained in the text of laws. Only keeping in mind the entire body of legal information implicitly embedded in every specific text, an ordinary citizen - a reader of laws - will be able to understand one or another rule of law. Thus, it is hypertextual thinking, usually considered by legal theorists as something inaccessible to ordinary consciousness, that is a necessary condition for understanding and enforcing a rule of law.