Vocabulary exercises

I. Match the words with their definitions

1. Chamber	a) a document from a court that orders someone to do or not to do something.
2. Convention	b) a formal agreement, especially between countries, about particular rules or behaviour.
3. discrimination	c) a large room in a public building used for important meetings.
4. European Court of Human Rights	d) a prerogative writ used to challenge the validity pf a person’s detention, either in official custody or in private hands.
5. habeas corpus	e) an important document in British history which King John of England signed in 1215 at Runnymede in the south of England.
6. judgment	f) an opinion that you have after thinking carefully about something.
7. limitation	g) people in general, considered in relation to the laws, organizations etc that make it possible for them to live together.
8. Magna Carta	h) the act or process of controlling or reducing something.
9. society	i) the court of law for the Council of Europe, based in Strasbourg in France.
10. writ	j) the practice of treating one person or group differently from another in an unfair way.

1. to apply	a) to break a law, rule, or agreement.
2. to breach	b) to include something as part of a group, system, plan etc.
3. to claim	c) to keep someone or something safe from harm, damage, or illness.
4. to establish	d) to make a formal request, usually written, for something such as a job, a place in a university, or permission to do something.
5. to imprison	e) to put someone in prison or to keep them somewhere and prevent them from leaving.
6. to incorporate	f) to start a company, organization, system, etc that is intended to exist or continue for a long time.
7. to protect	g) to state that you have a right to take or have something that is legally yours.

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