法律英语_教材汉翻英答案（完整版）

法律英语_教材汉翻英答案（完整版）

《法律英语》课后“汉翻英”答案 (完整版)

Lesson One

1）Common law is the law developed by judges through decisions of courts and similar tribunals.

2) Equity is a type of law that developed in parallel with common law since the end of the 14th century, which applies to civil cases and is one of the sources of the common-law system.

3) In the U.S., one of the functions of the federal courts is to interpret federal statutes and the constitution.

4) The civil-law system mainly prevails in continental Europe as well as other countries and regions heavily influenced by continental European countries.

5) Before the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure was promulgated in 1938, the federal courts of the United States procedurally separated law and equity. Lesson Two

1) Private law regulates the relationship between individuals whiles public law concerns the relationship between person (including natural persons and artificial persons) and the state.

2) Codification is not the essential difference between the civil-law system and the common-law system.

3) In many civil-law jurisdictions, precedents are not considered as binding.

4) Domestic law is different from international law in that domestic law refers to the laws within a given state which regulates the acts of individuals and other legal entities within its jurisdiction.

5) Substantial law refers to laws that define and recognize rights and obligations as well as duties and responsibilities while

procedural law refers to laws that provides for the mechanism for the realization or performance of rights and duties as well as duties and responsibilities.

Lesson Three

1) In some countries alcoholic beverages are prohibited from being sold to children.

2) Since the 1980s, China has set up and improved the employment service system, which includes employment introduction, employment training, unemployment insurance and employment services.

3) Various forms of resistance to desegregation were prevailing in those years.

4) It is unjust and unlawful to discriminate against people of other races.

5) Just as individuals in a democratic country have equal voting rights regardless of whether they are rich or poor, powerful or weak, all countries in the General Assembly have the same voting rights.

Lesson Four

1) A crime is an act which may lead to the imposition of punishment.

2) Some reports accused BP of criminal negligence in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

3) Modern U.S. criminal law provides that there must be clear definition for all the constituting elements of each and every crime.

4) Generally those who provide assistance to people in their criminal act are punishable as accessories or accomplices.

5) Failure to act may be punished where the person is under

a duty to act. Lesson Five