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What is law?

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Law can be a system of rules or a law about sth. It can also mean to have a right to do or have sth.

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What is land law?

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A subject/branch of law which deals with the ownership and transfer of land or immovable property

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What is criminal law?

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A subject/branch of law which determines crimes and punishments

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What is international law?

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A subject/branch of law which regulates the relationship between states

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What is law of tort?

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A subject/branch of law which provides for damages for the victim injured by another person

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Petition

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Written application to a court

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Settlement

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Agreement after an argument

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Pleadings

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Documents giving the arguments which the parties will use in the proceeding

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Litigation

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Starting legal proceedings against someone to have a disputed settled

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Writ/claim form

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Legal document demands of a person and inviting the defendant to come to court

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Right of audience

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The permission to plead before court

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Non-litigious matters

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Matters which are not in dispute

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Will

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Last wishes of a person drafted in a legal document

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Source of law

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The origins of laws, the binding rules that enable any state to govern its territory

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Subsidiary

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Subordinate, secondary, less important

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Unwritten law

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Case law

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Law report

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Reported judicial decision

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Act of Parliament

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One rule made by parliament contained in a written document

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To preponderate over

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To be predominate, to prevail

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Legislation

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Law made by parliament, act of parliament, statutes

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Sovereign

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Having the highest power or being completely independent

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To confer

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To give an official title, honour or advantage to someone

To delegate, to give

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To remove

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To take away

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Basic rights

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Fundamental freedoms, entitlements for everybody, fundamental liberties, human rights

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To interpret
To construe
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Delegated legislation
In the U.K., laws, rules etc made by a person or group other than the parliament that has been given special powers to do this by parliament Subordinate legislation
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To vest power in
To transfer a right to sb
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Subsequent court
Later, following court
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The hallmark of sth
Feature of sth
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To e love inductively
To develop from decision to decision
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Actualities
Real conditions or facts
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To hark back
To go back to
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Deductive approach
Method which bases on a general rule and concludes to the examples
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Divergent
Different from each other
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Salient feature
Striking, important
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Hierarchical authority
Competence according to the level in a hierarchy
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Binding case
Obligatory case, precedent
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What does the doctrine of the binding case say?
It says that 1) an inferior court is bound by the judicial decision of superior courts an, 2) a subsequent court has to follow the judicial decision of a previous court when deciding a similar case.
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Bill
A draft law
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White Paper
Governmental proposal on a new law having the structure of an Act of Parliament
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Green Paper
Governmental proposal on a new law at early stage with the intention of attracting public response and comment
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Royal Assent
The monarch's agreement to a Bill which makes it an Act of Parliament
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Bicameral
Consisting of two houses or chambers
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Hereditary peer
A member of HoL who inherited his/her peerage and belongs to the Lords Temporal
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Life peer
A member of HoL who did not inherit his/her peerage and belongs to the Lords Temporal
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To delay
To put off until later
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MP
A member of the HoC called Member of Parliament
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To scrutinise
To make a detailed examination of sth
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Public bills
Concern matters of general interest of the public
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Private bills
Benefit a particular person or a group of persons
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Hybrid bills
Mixture of public and private bill, introduced by the government, promote only a group of people
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Government bills
Introduced by the government in either house Introduced by a minister or other member in charge
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Private member's bills
Introduced by a private member only in the HoC If not supported by the government there is a little chance of success
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Indictable offence
A serious crime tried on indictment
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Tribunal
Special court
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Civil jurisdiction
The power of a court to try civil cases
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Domestic proceedings
A trial or hearing on family matters
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To try a case summarily
To try a case without jury in a quick manner
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Preliminary investigation
Dealing with a case before trial
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To appeal
To refer a case to a higher court to reach a different decision
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To remit, to commit a case
To refer a case to another court to reach a decision at all
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Offer and acceptance
Ar the two statements of willingness which must correspond in order to have a contract
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Intention to create legal relations
Is the will to be legally bound
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Remedy
Is the way of repairing harm or damage
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Specific performance
Is a remedy one can seek in order to reach the fulfilment of the obligations under a contract
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Misrepresentation
Is a false statement or fact made by one party to the other which induces the other party to enter into the contract
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Void and voidable
Void means having no legal effect, invalid Voidable means sth can be made void
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Offender, perpetrator
A synonym for "a criminal"
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Actual bodily harm
The crime of physically hurting or injuring a person
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Assault
Attacking another person illegally
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Arson
The crime of setting fire to property
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Manslaughter
The crime of killing a person just by chance or under mitigating circumstances
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Drunken driving
Driving a car under alcohol
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Murder
The unlawful killing of human being malice aforethought
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Handling stolen goods
The crime dealing with stolen goods
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Burglary
The offence of breaking into a house and stealing sth
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Perjury
The crime of telling lies on oath
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Theft
Stealing property of another with the intention of permanently depriving that other of his property
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Contempt of court
The crime of bad behaviour in court
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Reconversion
Imaginary process which a fictional conversion is considered which has not taken place in reality Rechtliche Rückumwandlung
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Satisfaction
An obligation is discharged by payment, performance or some similar act
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Mare a Injuction
Court order to freeze the assets of a person who has gone overseas or of a company based overseas to prevent them being taken out of the country, called after the case of Compania Naviera SA v. International Bulk Carriers SA
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Anton Pillen Order
Order by a court in a civil case allowing a party to inspect and remove a defendants documents, especially where the defendant might destroy evidence, called after the case of Anton Piller K.G. v. Manufacturing a process Ltd.

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