Vocabulary exercises

I. Match these terms with their definitions

1. ambiguity	a) a formal rule of an institution or organization.
2. attorney	b) a lawyer who is trying to prove in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime.

3. code	c) a set of rules, laws, or principles that tell people how to behave.

4. defendant	d) someone who has been attacked, robbed, or murdered.
5. jurisdiction	e) someone who sees a crime or an accident and can describe what happened.
6. proceedings	f) someone whose job is to advise people about laws, write formal agreements, or represent people in court.

7. prosecution	g) the institutionof asequenceof steps by which legal judgments are invoked.

8. prosecutor	h) the person in a court of law who has been accused of doing something illegal.

9. statute	i) the procedure by which the law is put in motion to bring an accused person to trial.

10. victim	j) the right to use an official power to make legal decisions, or the area where this right exists.

11. witness	k) the state of being unclear, confusing, or not certain, or things that produce this effect.

1. to achieve	a) to charge someone with a crime and try to show that they are guilty of it in a court of law.

2. to cover	b) to do something that is against a law or someone's legal rights.
3. to infringe	c) to give something to someone or make it available to them, because they need it or want.

4. to institute	d) to introduce or start a system, rule, legal process etc.
5. to prohibit	e) to put something over or be over something in order to hide, close, or protect it.

6. to prosecute	f) to say that an action is illegal or not allowed.
7. to provide	g) to successfully complete something or get a good result, especially by working hard.

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