This paper deals with the problem of legal definitions and legislative abbreviations. It describes rules for their creation and some related application problems.
On their grounds a thesis is formulated that it is not always useful to apply a legal definition or a legislative abbreviation even if they are explicit and unambiguous on the first sight. Finally, the authors propose some requirements which should be regarded before certain legal definition or legislative abbreviation is applied. "Let us not to be misled by the valid legislation," as it is stated in the title of the paper.