Foreign and archaic terminology. Foreign terminology and archaisms are usual in legal English because of the ancient history of law (Xxxxx and Sours 2014, 58). A frequent occurrence of terminology may be seen especially in primary sources of law. They ensure the rigidity of the text and correct interpretation. This subchapter is analysing whether there is an occurrence of foreign terminology or archaisms. The incidence of English archaisms in treaties was compared based on the publication Law Words: 30 essays on legal words and phrases (1995), which set the foreign and archaic legal terminology. Table 6 shows the results of the analysis. Treaty of Paris Maastricht Treaty Treaty of Lisbon ACQUIS COMMUNAUTAIRE 0 2 0 Table 6: The occurrence of words of French origin. The results show that the English words with a French and Latin origin are preponderant. All words listed in table 6 are words with a French origin. The results show that the most words with a French origin appear in the Treaty of Paris. It may be caused by a fact that the analysed English version of the Treaty of Paris is a translation from a French original. The Maastricht Treaty and the Treaty of Lisbon kept occurrence of these words to a minimum. Table 7 copies words from table 6 with its Czech, French and Latin translation. French and Latin equivalents have been added to the comparison, whether the Czech translation from the English language uses the words with French (Latin) origin as well. The Column with the Latin terminology has been added to demonstrate the similarity with French, following that all shown French words have its origin in Latin. ACQUIS COMMUNAUTAIRE Acquis communautaire X Acquis communautaire Table 7 demonstrates the proof of derivation from French, based on the similarity of words. However, as far as the CZ translation is concerned, there are only two words derived from French or Latin. The CZ word Parlament is obvious, and there is just a slight change to the original one. The second one is Acquis communautaire which is not being translated when it comes to the translation in the EU. According to the official website of the EU, Acquis communautaire is considered as Eurojargon and its definition is "EU law or rules" (European Commission 2016). The reason of this derivation in the English language is that there are many words with French origin mainly because of its shared history. On the other hand, the Czech language belongs to another family of languages and the Czech legal language is not affected as...
