1) An area having separate representation in the House of Commons.
2) A formal word for begin or start.
3) To make up, to compose.
4) The return or restoration of some specific thing or condition.
5) To put a person or thing in place of another.
b) Use the above words in the following sentences:
1) … is a body of substantive law in which liability is based not on tort or contract but on the defendant's unjust enrichment or the set of remedies associated with that body of law, in which the measure of recovery is usually based not on the
plaintiff's loss, but on the defendant's gain.
2) Title is legal evidence of a person's ownership rights in property or an instrument (such as a deed) that … such evidence.
3) Instructed delegate is bound to vote according to a …'s expressed wishes.
4) …-ed contract is a contract made between parties to an earlier contract so that the new one takes the place of and discharges the earlier one.
5) Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 is a protectionist statute that raised tariff rates on most articles imported into the U.S., and provoked U.S. trading partners to … comparable tariff increases.
TASK V Select the politica l and historical events mentioned in the text.
TASK VI a) C ompare the definitions of constitution borrowed from
1) Oxford Dictionary of Law and 2) Black’s Law Dictionary:
1) constitution n. The rules and practices that determine the composition and functions of the organs of central and local government in a state and regulate the relationship between the individual and the state. Most states have a written constitution, one of the fundamental provisions of which is that it can itself be amended only in accordance with a special procedure. The constitution of the UK is largely unwritten. It consists partly of statutes, for the amendment of which by subsequent statutes no special procedure is required, but also, to a very significant extent, of common law rules and constitutional conventions.
2) constitution. (18c) 1. The fundamental and organic law of a nation or state that establishes the institutions and apparatus of government, defines the scope of governmental sovereign powers, and guarantees individual civil rights and civil liberties. 2. The written instrument embodying this fundamental law, together with any formal amendments.
b) How is constitution defined in your legal system?
TASK VII Comment on the following quotation:
The power to tax involves the power to destroy. (John Marshall)
TASK VIII Explain how the Revolution of 1688 determined the relationship between the Crown and Parliament.
TASK IX Contribute to the subject and prepare a talk about:
a) Oliver Cromwell;
b) Short Parliament;
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