Lektion 8: English for Legal Purposes

Ergänzen Sie die richtige Übersetzung für jede der folgenden Vorgaben.

1. ins Kreuzverhör nehmen [?]
2. die Strafe, das Urteil [?]
3. die Freiheitsstrafe [?]
4. verhaften, festnehmen [?]
5. der Dieb, die Diebin [?]
6. der Beweis, das Beweisstück [?]
7. der Anwalt, die Anwältin [?]
8. der Notar, die Notarin [?]
9. der Mörder, die Mörderin [?]
10. die Übertragungsurkunde [?]
11. der Zeuge, die Zeugin [?]
12. begehen, verüben [?]
13. gesetzgebend [?]
14. der Einbrecher, die Einbrecherin [?]
15. die Hypothek, das Pfandrecht [?]
16. die Scheidung [?]
17. die Kurzdarstellung [?]
18. rechtlich [?]
19. der Schadenersatz [?]
20. unschuldig [?]
21. festschreiben [?]
22. der Einspruch, die Berufung [?]
23. der Beklagte, die Angeklagte [?]
24. beschuldigen, anklagen [?]
25. die Geschworenen [?]
26. das Straftat, das Vergehen [?]
27. der Rechtsbeistand [?]
28. die Vorladung [?]
29. verklagen, prozessieren [?]
30. der Diebstahl [?]
31. der Richter, die Richterin [?]
32. das Gericht [?]
33. das Gesetz [?]
34. die Verfahrensweise [?]
35. der Fall [?]
36. das Gericht [?]
37. Rechte [?]
38. urteilen, verfügen [?]
39. gerichtlich [?]
40. schuldig [?]
41. die eidesstattliche Erklärung [?]
42. das Testament [?]
43. die Vorgänge, die Geschehnisse [?]
44. der Geschworenenspruch [?]
45. der Staatsanwalt, die Staatsanwältin [?]
46. die Aussage [?]
47. behaupten [?]
48. die Körperschaft [?]
49. der Präzedenzfall [?]
50. der Totschlag [?]

Wählen Sie die richtige Antwort.

1. How does Michelle's friend know that she has a new job?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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2. How did Michelle get a job as a legal secretary?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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3. What did Michelle have to do to get the job ?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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4. What sort of work does she do?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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5. Who supervises her work?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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Wählen Sie die richtige Antwort.

1. Where is Jack going?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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2. What has Jack done wrong?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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3. What do blind stenographers use?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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4. Who does Jack work for?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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5. What sort of documents does he prepare.?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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Wählen Sie die richtige Antwort.

1. Why was the man in court?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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2. What did the thief steal?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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3. What was the magistrate's verdict?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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4. How did the defendant remove his arm?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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5. Did the defendant go to prison for the crime?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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Wählen Sie die richtige Antwort.

1. Who sued whom?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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2. What happened?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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3. What did the accident report say?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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4. When the officer arrived at the scene what did he do?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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5. Why did the officer shoot the horse?

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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Für jede der folgenden Behauptungen wählen Sie zwischen Richtig oder Falsch.

1. To work as a legal secretary you must specialise in legal terminology.

   
   
   

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2. A legal secretary prepares legal papers.

   
   
   

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3. A legal secretary's work is very boring.

   
   
   

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4. A court recorder works in a court room.

   
   
   

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5. A court recorder doesn't use a stenography machine.

   
   
   

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6. To be a court recorder you must be certified.

   
   
   

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7. There are special stenography machines for the visually impaired.

   
   
   

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8. A court recorder doesn't need a high speed on the stenography machine.

   
   
   

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9. Witnesses give testimony.

   
   
   

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10. Private detectives are sometimes used in divorce cases.

    
    
    

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Sprachübung. Vervollständigen Sie die gehörten Sätze, wie im vorangegangenen Beispiel.

1. A. The lawyer supervises her.
   B. [?]
2. A. They record the proceedings.
   B. [?]
3. A. Courts of law contract me.
   B. [?]
4. A. They can store the information.
   B. [?]
5. A. Do they always catch criminals?
   B. [?]
6. A. Legal secretaries prepare the documents.
   B. [?]
7. A. Somebody is sending the deeds tomorrow.
   B. [?]
8. A. Do they consider a person innocent until proved guilty?
   B. [?]
9. A. Do they execute murderers in that country?
   B. [?]
10. A. The judge is going to sentence him tomorrow.
    B. [?]

1. A. The lawyer supervised her work.
   B. [?]
2. A. The police arrested the burglar.
   B. [?]
3. A. They took him to court.
   B. [?]
4. A. The judge sentenced him a year in prison.
   B. [?]
5. A. A car injured Mr Smith and his horse.
   B. [?]
6. A. Mr Smith sued the driver of the car.
   B. [?]
7. A. The lawyer cross-examined him.
   B. [?]
8. A. Did somebody injure you?
   B. [?]
9. A. Why did the police officer shoot the horse?
   B. [?]
10. A. Who wrote this document?
    B. [?]

1. A. My friend told me the name of the company.
   B. [?]
2. A. A big law firm gave Susan a job.
   B. [?]
3. A. The lawyer asked the burglar a lot of questions.
   B. [?]
4. A. How many visits did they allow him?
   B. [?]
5. A. They promised the young man a pardon.
   B. [?]
6. A. Somebody sent the Prime Minister a letter bomb.
   B. [?]
7. A. They taught her stenography.
   B. [?]
8. A. An informer gave the police some important information.
   B. [?]
9. A. My boss told me the news.
   B. [?]
10. A. The judge gave the prisoner a long sentence.
    B. [?]

Wählen Sie die richtige Antwort.

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   b. 
   

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2. a. 
   b. 
   

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3. a. 
   b. 
   

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4. a. 
   b. 
   

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5. a. 
   b. 
   

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6. a. 
   b. 
   

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7. a. 
   b. 
   

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8. a. 
   b. 
   

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9. a. 
   b. 
   

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Für jede der folgenden Behauptungen wählen Sie zwischen Richtig oder Falsch.

1. Common law developed in Britain and then spread to continental Europe.

   
   
   

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2. European Union law comes from both common and civil law systems.

   
   
   

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3. The civil law system is used in many more countries than common law.

   
   
   

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4. Codification is the essence of civil law.

   
   
   

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5. Common law systems are codifying their laws.

   
   
   

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6. Civil law systems never admit the existence of judicial precedent.

   
   
   

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7. Civil law relies on laws made by judges.

   
   
   

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8. In the future, common law and civil law will appear the same.

   
   
   

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9. In civil law an unwritten system of judicial precedent has developed.

   
   
   

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10. In a civil law system, codification is the responsibility of the legislative body.

    
    
    

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In den folgenden Sätzen sollen Sie den Lückentext ergänzen. Wählen Sie dazu die richtige Option aus.

1. Secretaries may ____ in many different areas of the law.

   a. 
   b. 
   c. 
   

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2. Lawyers delegate some of their ____ to their secretary.

   a. 
   b. 
   c. 
   

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3. Lawyers ____ divorce agreements.

   a. 
   b. 
   c. 
   

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4. Some employers train ____ secretaries on the job

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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5. Because secretaries frequently ____ with the public, they should be courteous.

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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6. Lawyers are responsible for legal work, but they ____ their tasks to legal secretaries.

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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7. Legal secretaries understand legal terminology and have organisational ____ .

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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8. The civil law system is used in ____ more countries than common law.

   a. 
   b. 
   c. 
   

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9. The judge's role is ____ to the application of the law.

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   b. 
   c. 
   

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10. The jury could not ____ on a verdict.

    a. 
    b. 
    c. 
    

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11. The murder case went ____ the Court.

    a. 
    b. 
    c. 
    

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12. He was____ he had the right to remain silent.

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    b. 
    c. 
    

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13. The ____ of a Notary is to authenticate documents.

    a. 
    b. 
    c. 
    

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14. The Notary has the responsibility to protect ____ fraud.

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    b. 
    c. 
    

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15. A ____ in England is a kind of lawyer.

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    b. 
    c. 
    

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16. Civil law is ____ codified.

    a. 
    b. 
    c. 
    

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17. In civil law, every law of the country is written ____ the law.

    a. 
    b. 
    c. 
    

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18. His solicitor is seeking compensation ____ the Defendant.

    a. 
    b. 
    c. 
    

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19. A stenographer gets a professional ____.

    a. 
    b. 
    c. 
    

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20. Crime doesn't ____ .

    a. 
    b. 
    c. 
    

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