Legal concepts congruence and correlativity with specialized usage as a challenge for legal linguistics

The article advocates a standpoint whereby semantic relations of proximity between terms of law are not established routinely and linguistic data are determined by the existing pattern and interaction of internal legal domains. The role of legal linguistics is emphasized; Russian–English correspondences for terminological attributes ‘fiscal’ and ‘financial’ are provided from the Russian and Anglo-American legal languages with the strictly fixed usage in finance, tax and banking fields specified.