Smolak, Marek2016-11-242016-11-24Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, 59, 1997, z. 2, s. 1-11.0035-9629http://hdl.handle.net/10593/15719This article indicates that juridical notions assume specificai functions called by the author morphological ones. If we admit that the task of application of juridical notions is a structuring of a legal system, so we can distinguish three fundamental morphological functions of juridical notions: — systematizing function which is understood here as putting some more order (systematizing) to legal norms for to obtain a hierarchy of legal norms of a given system; — binding function - emerging when considering legal institutions as being one coherent unit of a given branch of law; — modelling function - when juridical notions do shape some specified, definite way of thinking (i.e. specified type of rationality). In conclusion of the article the Author points to close relation between onthology of the law and morphological functions which are assumed by juridical notions.polinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessArtykuł