This study aims to highlight the manifestations of grammatical cohesion in legal texts, taking the Penal Code of the United Arab Emirates (Crimes and Punishments Law) as an applied case study.
Our focus in uncovering the features of grammatical cohesion within this legal corpus centers on the syntactic relationships between sentences and the cohesive links that bind them, which together render the legal text structurally coherent. Sentences in the text are composed of a set of words that guide us toward the intended legal meaning. The purpose of these words is not found in their individual meanings, but rather in their structured arrangement, through which they interact and connect to express a unified semantic meaning—this being the fundamental purpose of legislation.

Through the study corpus, we aim to examine the crucial role of syntactic relations in achieving overall textual cohesion in the legal articles. These include predicative linkage, genitive (possessive) linkage, conditional linkage, and referential linkage.

Keywords: cohesion, predication, syntax, linkage.