Law And Rules

Question 1

Officially ordered to come to a court of law

Answer 1

to be summoned

Question 2

to say that something is not true

Answer 2

to deny sth.

Question 3

acting as a lawyer who is trying to prove in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime

Answer 3

to prosecute

Question 4

Unwillingness to do something

Answer 4

Reluctance

Question 5

The right to take care of someone/ sth. Which is granted by a court of law

Answer 5

Custody

Question 6

An object that is shown in court to prove whether someone is guilty or not

Answer 6

exhibit

Question 7

the right to use an official power to make legal decisions

Answer 7

Jurisdiction

Question 8

Someone who works as a judge in a local court of law, dealing with less serious crimes

Answer 8

Magistrate

Question 9

When an argument begins suddenly and violently it…

Answer 9

Flares up/ to flare up

Question 10

An illegal act, a crime

Answer 10

Offence

Question 11

A person who asks for something that they believe belongs to them/ that they have a right to

Answer 11

Claimant

Question 12

The place in which a person stands in a law court, when they are being asked questions

Answer 12

Witness box

Question 13

Jdn. zur Rechenschaft ziehen

Answer 13

To bring sb. to book

Question 14

seine Unschuld beteuern

Answer 14

to protest one’s innocence

Question 15

Ein glasklarer fall

Answer 15

An open-and-shut case

Question 16

Jmd. die Leviten lesen

Answer 16

to read sb. the riot act

Question 17

Selbstjustiz üben

Answer 17

to take the law into one’s own hands

Question 18

Eindhoven gesetzeslücke

Answer 18

to find a loophole in the law

Question 19

To perform to the best of one’s abilities and showing what one is capable of

Answer 19

to do oneself justice

Question 20

to find a small mistake in an argument/ law that gives someone the chance to avoid having to do something

Answer 20

to find a loophole in the law

Question 21

to behave in a way that is independent and does not follow the usual rules for a situation

Answer 21

To be a law unto yourself

Question 22

Something that happens to you that is severe or unfair

Answer 22

rough justice

Question 23

an occasion when something bad happens to a person who seems to deserve it

Answer 23

Poetic justIce

Question 24

Sich ein vorschnelles Urteil über etwas bilden

Answer 24

to make a snap judgement

Question 25

Jemandes Urteilsvermögen trübdn

Answer 25

To cloud one’s judgement

Question 26

to punish someone as severely as possible

Answer 26

to throw the book at sb.

Question 27

to obey the law

Answer 27

to be law-abiding

Question 28

a person who tries in an unofficial way to prevent crime/ catch and punish someone who has committed a crime

Answer 28

Vigilante/ a vigilante action