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Match the definitions with the words provided below.
1. Money claimed by someone as compensation for harm done.
2. To send someone to prison or to a court.
3. An adjective referring to a judge or to the law.
4. Not guilty of a crime.
5. Any act which is not legal.
6. A person who has studied law and can act for people on legal business.
7. A disagreement or argument between parties.
8. A specialist court outside the judicial system which examines special problems.
9. A set of arguments or facts put forward by one side in a legal proceeding.
10. An official who presides over a court.
11. To make an allegation in legal proceedings.
12. Someone who is accused of a crime in a criminal case.
13. A person who makes a claim against someone in a civil court.
14. An agreement reached after an argument.
15. To hold someone legally so as to charge them with a crime.
16. A case which is being heard by a committee, tribunal or court of law.
17. To find that someone is guilty of a crime.
18. Failure to carry out the terms of an agreement.
19. To bring someone to court to answer a criminal charge.
20. To ask a high law court to change its decision or sentence.
21. To say that someone has committed a crime.
22. Having the legal ability to force someone to do something.
23. An adjective referring to the rights and duties of private persons or organisations.
24. The arguments used when fighting a case.
25. A legal agreement between two or more parties.
26. An adjective referring to crime.
27. A group of 12 citizens who decide whether or not someone is guilty in a trial.
28. A written or spoken statement of facts which helps to prove or disprove something at a trial.
29. To order someone to pay money as a punishment.
30. A court order telling someone to stop doing something, or not to do something.
Probable Answers:
appeal, arrest, binding, breach, case, charge, civil, claimant, commit, contract, convict, court, crime
criminal, damages, defence, defendant, dispute, evidence, fine, guilty, hearing, injunction, innocent
judge, judicial, jury, lawyer, legal, offence, plead, prosecute, sentence, settlement, trial, tribunal
adopted from:
Wyatt, Rawdon (2006). CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR LAW. London: A &C Black Ltd.
Essential Word Exercise
1. Money claimed by someone as compensation for harm done.
2. To send someone to prison or to a court.
3. An adjective referring to a judge or to the law.
4. Not guilty of a crime.
5. Any act which is not legal.
6. A person who has studied law and can act for people on legal business.
7. A disagreement or argument between parties.
8. A specialist court outside the judicial system which examines special problems.
9. A set of arguments or facts put forward by one side in a legal proceeding.
10. An official who presides over a court.
11. To make an allegation in legal proceedings.
12. Someone who is accused of a crime in a criminal case.
13. A person who makes a claim against someone in a civil court.
14. An agreement reached after an argument.
15. To hold someone legally so as to charge them with a crime.
16. A case which is being heard by a committee, tribunal or court of law.
17. To find that someone is guilty of a crime.
18. Failure to carry out the terms of an agreement.
19. To bring someone to court to answer a criminal charge.
20. To ask a high law court to change its decision or sentence.
21. To say that someone has committed a crime.
22. Having the legal ability to force someone to do something.
23. An adjective referring to the rights and duties of private persons or organisations.
24. The arguments used when fighting a case.
25. A legal agreement between two or more parties.
26. An adjective referring to crime.
27. A group of 12 citizens who decide whether or not someone is guilty in a trial.
28. A written or spoken statement of facts which helps to prove or disprove something at a trial.
29. To order someone to pay money as a punishment.
30. A court order telling someone to stop doing something, or not to do something.
Probable Answers:
appeal, arrest, binding, breach, case, charge, civil, claimant, commit, contract, convict, court, crime
criminal, damages, defence, defendant, dispute, evidence, fine, guilty, hearing, injunction, innocent
judge, judicial, jury, lawyer, legal, offence, plead, prosecute, sentence, settlement, trial, tribunal
adopted from:
Wyatt, Rawdon (2006). CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR LAW. London: A &C Black Ltd.
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