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The publication is devoted to the characterisation of cross-cutting criminal law concepts - those that are repeatedly used in the text of the criminal law of Ukraine, theoretical studies of criminal law, law enforcement documents to indicate the features of various corpus delicti and, as a general rule, should have the same meaning. The author provides cases of use of the terms denoting the relevant concepts in the text of the current CC of Ukraine, and highlights the terms denoting the same-order variable concepts in the same articles of this Code. The semantic meaning of the respective terms is shown.

Attention is drawn to cases where the same terms are given different meanings and recommendations are made to unify their use. The author formulates the general rules of interpretation of cross-cutting criminal law concepts. The author provides interpretations of some of these concepts used in the Special Part of the current CC of Ukraine.