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材料出处:《法律英语教程》 李荣甫 宋雷 主编 北京:法律出版社,1999
General acts: acts which relate to the community generally, or establish a universal rule for the whole body politic.
Goodwill: the value of a business as a result of patronage, reputation.
Hearing: trial of a case at law, especially before a judge without a jury.
Hearsay: common talk; rumor; what one has heard another person or other person say.
Impair: weaken, damage
Impanel: to choose a jury in a law case.
In rem: a technical term used to designate proceedings or actions instituted against thing, not personal actions.
Incentive: an encouragement to greater activity.
Infringement: a violation of a law or rights secured by patents, copyrights and trademarks.
Injunction: an order.
Inquisitorial: of or like an investigator or an officer who is appointed by law to make an inquiry.
Instrumentality: agency, means by which function or policies are carried out.
Interpretation acts: the acts which give a definition of words commonly found in legislation.
Intestacy: the state or condition of dying without having made a valid will, or without having disposed by will of a part of his property.
Invalidate: to deprive of the legal force.
Judge: to hear and try cases in a law court; public officer with authority to hear and decide cases in a law court.
Judiciary: the judges of a country collectively; the system of law courts in a country; of or by a court or a judge.
Judiciary: the law and its administration; judge of the supreme courts.
Jurisdiction: areas of authority, the geographic area in which a court has power to hear and determine a case.
Jurisdiction: the power to hear and decide the issues in case and to bind the parties.
Jurist: one who is skilled in law or a legal scholar.
Jury: a body of persons selected according to law and sworn to give a verdict on some matter according to the evidence.
Law suit: a noncriminal case in a court of law.
Layman: non-professional; not expert, esp. with reference to the law and medicine.
Lead-time: the period of time between the decision to make a product and the start of production.
Lease: a written agreement, made according to law, by which the use of a building or piece of land is given by its owner to somebody for a certain time in return for rent.
Legislate: to enact laws or pass resolutions via legislation in contrast to court-made law.
Legislation: the laws made; statutes; the act of giving or enacting laws.
Legitimacy: the quality or fact of being based on or in compliance with the law.
Liability: legal obligation or duty.
Libel: the publication in permanent from of a statement which tends to expose a person to hatred, ridicule or contempt.
License: formal or legal permission to do something specified.
Litigation: going to law; making a claim at a court of law; contesting at a court of law.
Magistrate: a civil officer acting as a judge in the lowest courts; justice of the peace.
Magistrate: a person clothed with power as a public civil officer with executive or judicial power.
Memorandum: a note recording the particulars of an event.
Merit: worth; excellence; quality that deserves reward.
Monopoly: a privilege or peculiar advantage vested in one or more persons or companies, consisting in exclusive right to carry on a particular trade or business.
Monopoly: exclusive control of a commodity or service in a given market.
Mortgage: the transfer of an estate or interest in land or other property in order to secure the payment of a debtor the discharge of some other obligation.
Motion: proposal to be discussed and voted-on at a meeting; proposal to settle a dispute at a court of law.
Negotiate: to meet with another so as to arrive through discussion at some kind of agreement or compromise about something.
Negotiation: a method of dispute resolution where either the parties themselves of the representatives of each party attempt to settle conflicts without resort to the court.
Nexus: connection, bond.
Nuisance: that which annoys and disturbs one in possession of his property, rendering its ordinary use of occupation physically uncomfortable to him. |
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