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3. Answer the following questions using the information from the text:

  1. What is a notary?

  2. How do notary's responsibilities vary?

  3. What countries is the office of notary more important than in England? Why?

  4. Is there any differences in duties and responsibilities of notaries from different countries?

  5. How can the civil-law notary roughly described?

  6. What kind of documents does the notary deal with?

  7. What kind of advice can the notary provide?

  8. What is the notary responsible for as a public official?

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

(Here are several definitions of the legal terms used in the text. Read and translate each of them and guess the term)

  • written documents that explain each side's case and tell why the country should decide in its favour;

  • an interest in property created as a form of security for loan or payment of a debt and terminated on payment of the loan or debt;

  • a lawyer or legal practitioner who attests or certifies deeds and other documents or protests dishonoured bills of exchange;

  • a document by which a person appoints executors to administer his estate after his death, and directs the manager in which it is to be distributed to the beneficiaries;

  • a written document that is signed, sealed and delivered; if it is a contractual document, it is referred to as a contract under seal;

  • a contract involving the sale of goods or a similar contract of transfer;

  • a gratuitous transfer or grant of property. A legally valid gift must normally be effected by deed, by physical delivery in the case of chatteles.

5. PREPOSITIONS. Choose the right preposition in brackets according to the contents of the sentences (in, with, for, to, up, from): Note! Pay attention to the differences between “adverbial particles” and “prepositions”.

  1. Mens rea, the certain state of mind, varies ... crime to crime; they may be recklessness, negligence, intention to bring about a par­ticular consequence.

  2. Which field of law does your brother specialize ...?

  3. Liability is responsibility ... one’s actions together with an obli­gation to repair any injury caused.

  4. What are his requirements ... you?

  5. Bribery and corruption are offences relating ... the improper influencing of people in certain position of trust.

  6. Notary is a legal practitioner who draws ... legal documents, attests deeds, etc.

  7. The room became dark and the thief s eyes a moment adjust... the situation because he had to look ... his knife quickly and then escape.

  8. Examples include the immunity of members of the House of Commons and the House of Lords from proceedings ... respect ... words spoken in debate.

6. WORD FAMILIES. Give the chain of derivatives for the words below: Example: effect-effective-effectiveness-ineffectiveness;

to certify, to require, office, mortgage, authentic, bias, to agree, to reside

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