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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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