3. Read the following statements and decide if they are true or false:

1. There are three main legal systems in the world.

2. Customary law is the predominant legal system of the world.

3. The Civil law system is derived mainly from Magna Carta.

4. The main characteristic of the civil law system is that laws are organized into systematic written codes.

5. The major feature of the Common law system is that laws are based on the previous judicial decisions (precedents).

6. Muslim (religious) law is a legal system which is of a religious nature and based on the Bible.

7. The Indian legal system combines elements of different types of legal systems.

Vocabulary study

4. Find in the text the words that correspond to the following definitions:

1. a systematically arranged and comprehensive collection of laws;

2. a common practice, the usual way of acting in the given circumstances;

3. people living together in organized communities with shared laws, traditions, and values;

d) the system of laws originated and developed in England and based on court decisions, on the doctrines implicit in those decisions, and on customs and usages rather than on codified written laws;

e) the law of continental Europe, based on a mixture of Roman, Germanic, ecclesiastical, feudal, commercial, and customary law.

4. Word formation. Complete the following table with the appropriate noun forms. Translate the words.

Noun	Other parts of speech
…	Customary
…	Mixed
…	Religious
…	Combine
…	Systematic

4. Find the odd word. Explain your choice:

1. society – community – tribe – island;

2. custom – practice – usually – habit;

3. folks – village – people – humanity;

4. agrarian – agricultural – urban – farming;

5. island – isle – the British Isles – sea.

4. Sorting activity. Sort the following words according to the related topics:

Civil law	Common law	Muslim law	Customary law	Mixed legal system

The customs of the community, judge-made laws, religious nature, a mixture of different types of legal systems, systematic written codes, judicial decisions, agrarian and hunting communities, Roman Law.

4. Write down the initial form of these words. Explain the changes in the spelling.

…	Referred
…	Applied
…	Countries
…	the earliest
…	Communities

4. Review the rules of forming degrees of comparison of adjectives. Write the comparative and superlative degrees of the following adjectives:

Early, prominent, widespread, religious, primitive, small.

4. Translating the words in brackets read the passage which contains additional information on the topic:

Civil law is sometimes referred to as neo-Roman law, Romano-Germanic law or Continental law. The expression civil law is a translation of Latin jus civile,* or “citizens’ law”, which was the former imperial term for its (правова система), as opposed to the laws governing conquered peoples (jus gentium)*.

Civil law is a legal system inspired by (Римське право), the primary feature of which is that laws are written into a collection, codified, and not as in (прецедентне право) determined by judges.

Conceptually, it is the group of legal ideas and systems derived from the (Кодекс Юстиніана), but overlaid by Germanic, ecclesiastical, feudal, and local practices. Civil law holds (законодавство) as the primary source of law.

The principle of civil law is to provide all citizens with an accessible and written (збірка законів) which applies to them and which judges must (дотримуватися). It is (найбільш поширений тип правових систем світу) and oldest surviving legal system in the world. Colonial expansion spread (романо-германська правова система) and (Європейське континентальне право) has been adopted in much of Latin America as well as in parts of Asia and Africa.

A prominent example of civil law would be the Napoleonic Code (1804).

*Notes: Jus gentium – право народів;

Jus civile – внутрішньодержавне, цивільне право.