One believes it is easy to recognize from whom a legal provision originates and what it means. Recent decisions of the VfGH on health care raise doubts about the simplicity - especially since legal provisions originate from very different "authors". Knowing the origin of a text is the fundamental requirement for its understanding, because not only the language but also the "person" of the legislator plays a role in its interpretation. It turns out that different legislators speak very different languages, even if a text at first seems to be written in simple German. We therefore put up for discussion the idea of documenting the origin of a text in legal informatics.

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