Introduction to law: BASIC TERMS

Which terms do you associate with “LAW”?

JUDGE JURY
to TRY
LAWYER GUILTY
to ACCUSE
COURT MURDER
to APPEAL
WITNESS INNOCENT
 Basic legal terms

Match verbs with nouns:

cross examine the law

break a crime
commit a verdict
hear a case
pass a witness
 BASIC LEGAL TERMS
Which terms do you associate with “LAW”?

lawyer legal

illegal LAW lawmaker

lawful unlawful
 BASIC LEGAL TERMS
What do we do with “LAW”?

pass --- enact --- lay down

impose --- enforce

break --- violate --- apply

 What is meant by “LAW”?

The whole procedure has been conducted BY LAW.

It is against the LAW to bully.
A new LAW on financial leasing has recently been
passed.
Her uncle has been practising LAW for 20 years.
She is studying LAW at he University of Zagreb.
It is not easy to understand THE LAW.
 What does LAW mean?

LAW
(a/the/Ø)

BRANCH OF LEGAL SYSTEM

LAWS OF A COUNTRY KNOWLEDGE THE POLICE
(RULES) SUBJECT THE COURTS
PROFESSION JUDGES
 Definitions of LAW
From Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary:

1. SYSTEM OF RULES
(U) (also the law) the whole system of rules that everyone in a country or
society must obey
2. ONE RULE
(C)a rule that deals with a particular crime, agreement etc.
3. SUBJECT/PROFESSION
(U) the study of law as a subject at university; the profession of being a
lawyer
4. POLICE
(U) (the law) used to refer to the police and the legal system
5. OF ORGANIZATION/ACTIVITY
(c) one of the rules which controls an organization or activity
Read the text and match the subtitles with the paragraphs:

 The law – not a pure system of norms

 A number of different laws
 Law – a difficult term to define
 The law in the sense of the legal system – the most common
definitions
Finish the following sentences according to the text.

1. The law cannot be defined as _____________.

2. The law cannot be separated _____________.
3. The law is based on _________________and has
_________________________.
4. The social purpose of the law is ____________
______________________________________.
Which verb collocates with which noun?
Match them.

conform (to) law

impose violation of the law
enforce rules
avenge physical force
apply actions
 Essential terms:
• law = pravo; zakon; propis
• lawyer = pravnik, odvjetnik
• legal = zakonit, legalan, pravni
• illegal = protupravan, protuzakonit, nezakonit
• lawful = zakonit, zakonski
• unlawful = nezakonit, protuzakonit, nelegalan
• a jurist = (znameniti) pravnik, jurist
• to conform TO rules = prilagoditi (se) pravilima, biti u skladu s pravilima
• rules of conduct = pravila ponašanja
• to impose = nametnuti
• to enforce = provoditi, provesti
• an infraction / violation of a law = kršenje zakona
• application (of physical force) = primjena
• coercion (physical of psychological) = prisila, prinuda
• to regulate (human behaviour) = urediti/uređivati
• to establish (social order) = uspostaviti