Legal text, equivalence of translation, sworn translator Teksty prawnicze, ekwiwalencja tłumaczenia, tłumacz przysięgły

Summary This paper is focusing to the problem of equivalence in translation legal texts from Czech language to the Polish language and vice versa. Good equivalence of translated texts is necessary in the legal texts. General rules of equivalence are described at the beginning of this paper. The examples of translated legal texts are taken from practise of ?sworn? translator in a criminal procedure. They are based on real language situations in translation process. A useful translation strategy is considered as a main factor of succesful translation these texts.