Legal terminology and legal concepts as legal and technical means as well as scientific and theoretical categories

Legal terms should be understood not only as a technical means, but also as the most important scientific and legal category that ensures the content of law, the development of legal science, the quality of legal acts and the effectiveness of legal regulation in general. This is due to the fact that real knowledge of legal phenomena and processes is possible only by analyzing legal concepts expressed in legal terms. The inseparable connection of legal concepts and the terms corresponding to them suggests that increasing the role of the latter is impossible without the scientific development of legal concepts. Purpose: to show the great importance of the categories «legal (law) terminology» and «legal concept» as the most important scientific and theoretical legal terms and means of legal technology. Methods: empirical methods of description and interpretation; special scientific formal legal method and comparative legal method. Results: a critical analysis of the views on legal terms of famous national and foreign jurists is carried out; legal terminology is recognized as the main means of legal technology; the similarities and differences of legal terminology and its concepts are named.