lainkohtiin

Lainkohtiin is a Finnish term used in legal language to refer to the individual provisions or clauses within a statute or legal act. The base form is lainkohta, meaning a specific clause or point in a law. Lainkohtiin is the illative plural form, typically used to indicate movement toward or reference to the law’s provisions, for example in phrases that mean “to the provisions of the law” or “into the law’s sections.”

In practice, Finnish statutes are organized into sections and articles, and the terms lainkohdat and pykälät are commonly used to denote the concrete parts of a law. Lainkohtiin appears in legal writing and procedural contexts when citing or directing attention to specific parts of a statute, especially in interpretive, argumentative, or drafting activities. The form is not a separate field of law; rather, it is a grammatical form used to talk about the parts of a law.

Lainkohdat as a concept are closely related to the broader practice of statutory citation and interpretation. When drafting or studying legislation, practitioners may refer to particular sections and provisions collectively or individually, and lainkohtiin serves as a linguistic tool to indicate those parts in discourse.

See also: laki, pykälä, lainkohdat, lainsäädäntö.