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of it is produced by individual states and reflects various traditions. The
state of Louisiana, for example, has a Roman civil form of law which
derives from its days as a French colony. California has a case law
tradition, but its laws are codified as extensively as many Continental
systems. Quebec is an island of French law in the Canadian sea of case
law. In India, English common law has been codified and adopted
alongside a Hindu tradition of law. Sri Lanka has inherited a criminal code
from the Russian law introduced by the Dutch, and an uncodified civil law
introduced by the British.

1. What was the Lord Chancellor?
2. What is an important feature of the common law tradition?
3. Why did Lord Chancellor’s court become more willing to
modify existing common law?
4. What other law systems and traditions do you know?
5. What form of law has the state of Louisiana?
6. What is the problem resulting from the existence of two
systems of justice?
7. What rights did new system of law recognize?
8. How long did the courts of common law and of equity
exist alongside each other?
9. When should the equity prevail?
10. What had a person to do in order to get a
satisfactory solution?
11. What is the difference between the court of equity
and the common law court?
12. What is the result of the two systems unification?
13. What is the spread of common law due to?
14. What many people in England were dissatisfied
with?
15. When were the two systems unified?

Task 5. a) Give the Ukrainian equivalents for the following:
b) Make up and act out the stories illustrating the given
proverbs.
A fair exchange is no robbery
A fault confessed is half redressed.
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