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5.      The legal institutions evolved by the Romans had influence
          … the laws of other peoples in times long after the disappearance of the
          Roman Empire and in countries that were never subject … Roman rule.
                Between, with, to (3) , of, on,

          Task 6. Translate the following text  and pay special attention to the
          underlined words and phrases.
                1.      Legal systems in capitalist and pre-capitalist nations were
          created to reinforce and justify property relations.
                2.      Legal  relations  should  not  be  thought  of  as  in  any  way
          independent  from  political  relations,  which  are  based  on  ownership  of
          property.
                3.      Socialist  lawmakers  criticized  both  common  law  and
          previous  Roman  civil  law  systems  for  masking  their  own  capitalist
          ideology in apparently neutral, unbiased institutions.
                4.      In China, law courts are still primarily regarded as political
          instruments,  used  both  to  control  theft  and  violence  and  to  deal  with
          political opponents.
                5.      Attempts  have  been  made  to  codify  Chinese  law
          comprehensively, but so far there has been little progress.
                6.      Even  before  the  rejection  of  their  traditions,  the  foreign
          countries had started to allow an increase in civil law cases, and a long
          process of revising existing civil and criminal codes had begun.
                7.      As separatist movements grew in many parts of the world,
          there was also development in Constitutional law, with some c questioning
          the legality of their obligations to the central government.

          Task 7. Make the following text complete by translating the phrases in
          brackets.
                                  Continental Systems
                Continental  systems  are  sometimes  known  as  (кодифікована
          правова система). They have resulted from attempts by governments to
          produce a set of codes to (керувати) every legal aspect of a citizen's life.
          Thus  it  was  necessary  for  the  (законодавець)  to  speculate,  quite
          comprehensively about (людська поведінка) rather than simply looking
          at previous cases. In codifying their legal systems,  many countries have
          looked to the examples of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, whose
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