Vocabulary exercises

1. administrative law

a) a system of law inherited from England based on Legal precedents or tradition instead of statutory law or systematic legal codes.

2. civil law

b) the area of law relating to the functions and powers of government organizations and how they operate in practice to administer government policy.

3. common law

c) the area of law relating to the organization of the family and the legal relations of its members.

4. consti­tutional law

d) the law relating to contracts, i.e. legally binding agreements.

5. criminal law

e) the law relating to torts, i.e. civil wrongs independent of contract.

6. family law

f) the law that pertains to offences against the state itself, actions that may be directed against a person but that are deemed to be offensive to society as a whole – for example, armed robbery or rape.

7. law

g) the law that pertains to the relationship between one private citizen and another, between a private citizen and a corporation, or between one corporation and another.

8. law of contract

h) the law under which beneficiaries become entitled to property under a testator’s will or on intestacy.

9. law of succession

i) the national law of a state, as opposed to International law.

10. law of tort

j) the part of the law which deals with relations between ordinary individuals, and also between individuals and the State in circumstances where the State has no special rights or powers..

11. municipal law

k) the part of the legal system which deals with the State and also with relations between the State and ordinary individuals in circumstances where the State has special rights or powers.

12. private law

l) the supreme law of the land and regulates the different branches of government and puts limits on their powers.

13. public law

m) the whole system of rules that people in a particular country or area must obey.

1. to characterize

a) to accept that something is true unless someone proves it is not true.

2. to classify

b) to consist of particular parts, groups etc.

3. to comprise

c) to decide what group something belongs to.

4. to disturb

d) to describe the qualities of someone or something in a particular way.

5. to enforce

e) to do something that is in opposition to a law, agreement, principle etc.

6. to presume

f) to make sure that a law or rule is obeyed by people.

7. to violate

g) to upset and worry someone a lot.