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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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12
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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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17
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Law report

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Reported judicial decision

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18
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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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21
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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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24
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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

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To construe

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Delegated legislation

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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

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To transfer a right to sb

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Subsequent court

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Later, following court

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29
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The hallmark of sth

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Feature of sth

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30
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To e love inductively

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To develop from decision to decision

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31
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Actualities

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Real conditions or facts

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32
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To hark back

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To go back to

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33
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Deductive approach

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Method which bases on a general rule and concludes to the examples

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34
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Divergent

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Different from each other

35
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Salient feature

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Striking, important

36
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Hierarchical authority

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Competence according to the level in a hierarchy

37
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Binding case

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Obligatory case, precedent

38
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What does the doctrine of the binding case say?

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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.

39
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Bill

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A draft law

40
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White Paper

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Governmental proposal on a new law having the structure of an Act of Parliament

41
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Green Paper

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Governmental proposal on a new law at early stage with the intention of attracting public response and comment

42
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Royal Assent

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The monarch’s agreement to a Bill which makes it an Act of Parliament

43
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Bicameral

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Consisting of two houses or chambers

44
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Hereditary peer

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A member of HoL who inherited his/her peerage and belongs to the Lords Temporal

45
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Life peer

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A member of HoL who did not inherit his/her peerage and belongs to the Lords Temporal

46
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To delay

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To put off until later

47
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MP

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A member of the HoC called Member of Parliament

48
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To scrutinise

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To make a detailed examination of sth

49
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Public bills

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Concern matters of general interest of the public

50
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Private bills

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Benefit a particular person or a group of persons

51
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Hybrid bills

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Mixture of public and private bill, introduced by the government, promote only a group of people

52
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Government bills

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Introduced by the government in either house

Introduced by a minister or other member in charge

53
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Private member’s bills

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Introduced by a private member only in the HoC

If not supported by the government there is a little chance of success

54
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Indictable offence

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A serious crime tried on indictment

55
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Tribunal

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Special court

56
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Civil jurisdiction

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The power of a court to try civil cases

57
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Domestic proceedings

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A trial or hearing on family matters

58
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To try a case summarily

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To try a case without jury in a quick manner

59
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Preliminary investigation

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Dealing with a case before trial

60
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To appeal

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To refer a case to a higher court to reach a different decision

61
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To remit, to commit a case

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To refer a case to another court to reach a decision at all

62
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Offer and acceptance

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Ar the two statements of willingness which must correspond in order to have a contract

63
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Intention to create legal relations

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Is the will to be legally bound

64
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Remedy

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Is the way of repairing harm or damage

65
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Specific performance

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Is a remedy one can seek in order to reach the fulfilment of the obligations under a contract

66
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Misrepresentation

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Is a false statement or fact made by one party to the other which induces the other party to enter into the contract

67
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Void and voidable

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Void means having no legal effect, invalid

Voidable means sth can be made void

68
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Offender, perpetrator

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A synonym for “a criminal”

69
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Actual bodily harm

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The crime of physically hurting or injuring a person

70
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Assault

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Attacking another person illegally

71
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Arson

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The crime of setting fire to property

72
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Manslaughter

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The crime of killing a person just by chance or under mitigating circumstances

73
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Drunken driving

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Driving a car under alcohol

74
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Murder

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The unlawful killing of human being malice aforethought

75
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Handling stolen goods

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The crime dealing with stolen goods

76
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Burglary

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The offence of breaking into a house and stealing sth

77
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Perjury

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The crime of telling lies on oath

78
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Theft

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Stealing property of another with the intention of permanently depriving that other of his property

79
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Contempt of court

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The crime of bad behaviour in court

80
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Reconversion

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Imaginary process which a fictional conversion is considered which has not taken place in reality

Rechtliche Rückumwandlung

81
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Satisfaction

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An obligation is discharged by payment, performance or some similar act

82
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Mare a Injuction

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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

83
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Anton Pillen Order

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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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