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Understanding new vocabulary

i) Read lines 10 quickly. Note all the words or phrases which you don't know or are not sure of clearly and their line number.

 

ii) How many words or phrases have you noted?

You can see that you already know most of the language. The language you don't know is limited. And you were probably able to understand the main points of the text - that there are written and unwritten sources of law, and that English law is not written in a code - questions  2à) and b) above - without understanding every word.

 

iii) Check that you understand the detailed questions below. Do not try to answer the questions yet.

a) Is all law which is written defined as 'written law''?

b) Is any 'unwritten law' in fact written?

c) Are codes of law popular in Continental countries?

d) Is most Continental law generally written or unwritten?

e) Is most English law found in the form of legislation or judicial precedent?

f) What is the law relating to the sale of goods?

g) What is the Partnership Act?

 

iv) Refer to the text and decide which of the 20 words and phrases below you need to understand to answer the questions in iii) above. Do not try to answer the questions yet.

a) declarers (line 1) i) formal enactments o) codified (27)

b) aspect (5) (16) p) sale of goods (28)

c) solemnity (7) j) set (18) q) partnership (30)

d) misleading (9) k) codified (20) r) casts (32)

e) enacted (11) 1) preponderate over s) statutes (33)

f) whether reduced to (22) t) wholesale codification
writing or not (11-12) m) predominant (24) (34)

g) unenacted(13) n) legislative enactment
h) law reports (15) (25-6)

 

A Compare your ideas with other members of the class.

 

v) This exercise will show you that you can often use words you know, information in the text and logical reasoning, as well as cognates, to find the meaning of new words that you need to understand in a text. Complete the exercise, where possible using cognates to confirm your ideas. As you work, you will see when to answer the questions from iii) above.

 

(1) A law which is passed (made) by the UK Parliament is called an ACT of Parliament. What do you think enACTed (line 11) means?

(2) In simple English reduced to writing (lines 11-12) means_

Whether ... or not (lines 11-12) is used when there are two alternatives - one positive and one negative.

(3) If UNwritten law is the opposite of written law, what is UNenacted law (13)?

(4) An enactment is a single law.
Now answer questions iii a) and b).

What do answers a) and b) tell you about the meaning of words in legal English?

(5) You know the word code (noun). What do you think the verb codified (20)
means?

To check: you know that countries have done this since the Code Napoleon, which created a fashion (18-19). What have they probably done? Answer question iii c).

(6) You know that many countries have codified their law, therefore ... (21). Therefore introduces a consequence. In countries where law is codified, will the volume of written law therefore (as a consequence) probably be larger or smaller than the volume of unwritten law? Therefore, what does preponderate over (22) mean?



Answer question iii d).

(7) You know the words legislation and enactment. What do you think legislative enactment (25-6) is? Answer question iii e).

(8) The text refers to 'the law relating to the sale of goods . . .' (28). Sale of goods must be an area of law. Do you know the noun sale? It is related to the verb to sell. What sort of things could be the object of a sale? What branch of law do you think sale of goods is part of?

Answer question iii f)

(9) '. . . and the law relating to partnership' (29-30). Like sale of goods, partnership must be an area of law. You know the word partner - a person who takes part in some activity with another or others. In the context of the law, partners have a special kind of business relationship.

Partnership is a related noun. What branch of law could include partnership?

Answer question iii g).

 

vi) Go back to the list of words in iv) above. Which ones did you in fact use to answer the questions in iii)? You can see that to answer the questions you only need to understand some of the words. Which words those are, depends on your reading purpose.



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