rättssäkerhet

== 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 ==== Declension ==== ==== 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 [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “rättssäkerhet”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) Swedish/English Glossary (2019) by the Swedish National Courts Administration