<p>The present study seeks to analyze English translation of the Arabic legal document of the Saudi “Basic Law of Governance”. The aim is to evaluate the accuracy of maintaining the semiotic relations connecting the signifier to the signified within the corresponding seme or sign, with respect to the Arabic context and Saudi culture. The English translation output is assessed against the Arabic original document in terms of using the most appropriate lexicon and word order. This study adopts a semiotic approach to analyze the designated legal document. By adapting some principal propositions in semiotics, the argument in this study speculates that the best translation quality can be achieved via meta-lingual adjustment, because a sign is not born with a specific meaning but can change its referent by the existence of adjacent signs, i.e., its collocates. The study also shows that semiotic analysis can help in revealing how the translation of legal documents can perpetuate certain ideas and beliefs while ignoring others. Therefore, the translation of a legal document is held critical and sometimes dangerous if it did not serve the same purpose of communication of the original document.</p>