The present paper aims to give a cross-disciplinary view of what indeterminacy means in the context of legal theory and language theory, where it has been rather highly developed, and what implications this has for the theory and practice of translation, where it has been developed to a lesser extent, and more specifically for translation in the legal context, where it has hardly been developed at all. The importance of the cross-disciplinary perspective lies in the fact that it is not unusual for specialists in a particular discipline to believe that other disciplines are better founded, less subject to skeptical doubts and speculative changes than their own.