rättssäkerhet
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Swedish
Etymology
Compound of rätt (“right, law”) + -s- + säkerhet (“security, safety”), attested since circa 1814. Compare with German Rechtssicherheit.
Noun
rättssäkerhet c
- (law) legal certainty, rule of law, law and order, due process; a condition (commonly of a national state) which means that the rules of law are applied in a predictable way, also entailing legal security and protection against arbitrariness on the part of the authorities
- 1934, Eliel Löfgren, Klockorna i Östervåla, page 313:
- Naturligtvis kunde jag icke neka honom denna lilla gentjänst för allt vad Anders Pers’ tidning gjort för saken, som för honom gällde rättssäkerhet och ansvarskänsla gentemot godtycke och ansvarslöshet.
- Certainly, I could not deny him this small favor for all that Anders Pers' newspaper has done for the cause, which, for him, concerned justice and a sense of responsibility towards arbitrariness and irresponsibility.
- 2013 February 19, Mårten Eidevall, “Kronvittnen hotar rättssäkerheten”, in Svenska Dagbladet:
- [...] ett system med kronvittnen bygger in ökade risker för falska vittnesmål – och är ett hot mot rättssäkerheten.
- a system with crown witness construct inherently increased risks of false testimony - and is a threat to the legal certainty.
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | rättssäkerhet | rättssäkerhets |
| definite | rättssäkerheten | rättssäkerhetens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |
Antonyms
- rättsosäkerhet (“legal uncertainty”)
Derived terms
- rättssäkerhetsgaranti (“procedural safeguards, procedural guarantees”)
- rättssäkerhetintresse
- rättssäkerhettillstånd
- rättssäkerhetskrav
- rättssäkerhetssynpunkt
See also
- rättstrygghet (“security before the law, legal rights”)
- rättssäker (“legally secure, in compliance with the rule of law”)
References
- rättssäkerhet in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- rättssäkerhet in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- Swedish/English Glossary (2019) by the Swedish National Courts Administration