You should know law

The word "law" is used to mean many things. Laws can be defined as a set of rules established by a governing power to maintain peace, secure justice for its members, define the legal rights of the individual and the community, and to punish offenders for legal wrongs.

Law essentially serves two functions in modern society. First, it serves to order and regulate the affairs of all individuals, corporations or governments. Secondly, law acts as standard of conduct and morality. Through both these functions law promotes and achieves a broad range of social objectives.

The English word "law" refers to limits upon various forms of behaviour. Some laws are descriptive: they simply describe how people, or even natural phenomena, usually behave (for example, the law of gravity, the laws of economics). Other laws are prescriptive - they prescribe how people ought to behave (for example, traffic laws that prescribe how fast we should drive).

V. Поставьте письменно 4 вопроса к тексту.

Вариант 17

I. Перепишите предложения и преобразуйте их из прямой речи в косвенную. Письменно переведите предложения на русский язык.

1) “The judge is the presiding officer of the court”, Steve said.

2) “Are you sorry for what you did?” Bob asked his friend.

3) “Don’t be angry with me”, Ann asked her mother.

II. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык предложения, обращая внимание на перевод условных предложений.

1) If he hadn’t been so careless, he would not have fallen into this trap.

2) If you didn’t smoke, he would feel more energetic.

3) If my brother is in trouble, I shall help him, of course.

III. Перепишите и письменно переведите на русский язык предложения. Обратите внимание на перевод инфинитива и инфинитивных конструкций, подчеркните их (в англ. предложении).

1) The aim of the preliminary investigation is to draw up an indictment.

2) He went to Oxford to study law.

3) The delegation is reported to have arrived.

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