IV. Match the sentence halves

1. Experts have been assessing	a) a trivial offence.
2. He confessed	b) all just hearsay.
3. Her conclusion was	c) at full capacity now.
4. His evidence was	d) enough evidence to convict him.
5. Lying under oath is not	e) for the right to become separate entities.
6. The factory is operating	f) his determination to pursue the rebels.
7. The police didn't have	g) that the situation would never improve.
8. The president underlined	h) the level of flood damage.
9. The two countries fought	i) to establish proof of her innocence.
10. We were unable	j) to the crime under cross-examination.

V. Fill in prepositions, where necessary

1. A corporation is an artificial person which is recognized … law as a separate legal entity once the formalities … its creation have been complied … .

2. A corporation must be distinguished … an unincorporated association, which does not have a legal identity separate … that … its members.

3. A person who wishes to rely … the contents … a document as a means … proving a fact must prove what the document … question contains.

4. Human beings generally have full legal capacity, and consequently are potentially subject … any rule … law.

5. It is the function … the court, not … the witnesses, to draw conclusions … the proven facts.

6. Opinion as a means … proof must be distinguished … opinion as a fact … itself, which is not excluded.

7. The actual rules … which a person is subject depend … the factual situation … which he finds himself.

8. The general rule is that a person can give evidence … what he heard or saw, however he cannot give evidence … what he heard another person say.

9. The legal view … marriage is that it is a voluntary union … life … one man and one woman … the exclusion … all others.

10. The main exception … the rule excluding proof … opinion relates … expert witnesses who may give an opinion based … impression or inference.

VI. Fill in articles where necessary

1. … corporation is … artificial person which is recognized in law as … separate legal entity once … formalities for its creation have been complied with.

2. … corporation must be distinguished from … unincorporated association, which does not have … legal identity separate from that of its members.

3. … legal person is … being that is regarded by … law as having rights and duties.

4. … person who wishes to rely on … contents of … document as … means of proving … fact must prove what … document in question contains.

5. Attestation is … signature of … document as … witness to … signature of one of … parties to … document.

6. Handwriting is … commonest method of proving … validity or execution of … document and may be proved by ordinary or expert witnesses.

7. In most cases it will not be necessary for … party to prove all … documents in his possession since many of them will be formally admitted by his opponent.

8. It is … function of … court, not of … witnesses, to draw conclusions from … proven facts.

9. Opinion as … means of proof must be distinguished from opinion as … fact in itself, which is not excluded.

10. … actual rules to which … person is subject depend on … factual situation in which he finds himself.