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3. What classifications of law do you know?
4. What does substantive law set out?
5. What for do the duties tend to take?
6. What kinds of rules does procedural law establish?
7. What distinction exists between criminal and civil law?
8. What breaches does criminal law define?
9. What duties are established by civil law?
10. What subdivisions of civil law are you familiar with?
11. What does constitutional law deal with?
12. What relations does family law regulate?
13. What wrongs does law of torts include?
14. What maters does the term labour law include?
15. What questions does admiralty law deal with?

Task 5. Pick out from the text all the word combinations with the following words and give their
Ukrainian equivalents. Law, society, body, to include, to establish

Task 6. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate preposition from the list below. In, into, for, to (x2),
out.
1. The President of this company usually sets … his ideas absolutely clearly in his speeches.
2. Every political community, and thus every national state, has a constitution, at least in the
sense that it operates its important institutions according …some fundamental body of rules.
3. Criminal law defines breaches of duty to society … large.
4. Everything I have said doesn’t apply …you.
5. Family law is divided … public and private cases.
6. In economic affairs, tort law provides remedies … businesses that are harmed by the unfair
and deceptive trade practices of a competitor.

Task 7.Translate the following sentences.
1. Admiralty law is a distinct body of law which governs maritime questions and offenses and
deals with matters including marine commerce, marine navigation, shipping, sailors, and the transportation
of passengers and goods by sea
2. Family law is an area of the law that deals with family-related issues and domestic relations
including: the nature of marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships; issues arising throughout
marriage, including spousal abuse, legitimacy, adoption, surrogacy, child abuse, and child abduction the
termination of the relationship and ancillary matters including divorce, annulment, property settlements,
alimony, and parental responsibility orders.
3. Criminal law, or penal law, is the body of rules that defines conduct which is prohibited by
the state because it is held to threaten, harm or otherwise endanger the safety and welfare of the public, and
that sets out the punishment to be imposed on those who breach these laws.
4. Civil law is a legal system inspired by Roman law, the primary feature of which is that laws
are written into a collection, codified, and not (as in common law) determined by judges.
5. Canon law is the body of laws and regulations made by or adopted by ecclesiastical
authority, for the government of the Christian organization and its members and the way that such church
law is legislated, interpreted and at times adjudicated varies widely among three bodies of churches
Catholic Church, Orthodox Church and the Anglican Communion of churches.
6. The law of torts serves four objectives
• it seeks to compensate victims for injuries suffered by the culpable action or inaction of others;
• it seeks to shift the cost of such injuries to the person or persons who are legally responsible for
inflicting them;
• it seeks to discourage injurious, careless, and risky behavior in the future and at last
• it seeks to vindicate legal rights and interests that have been compromised, diminished, or
emasculated.

Task 8. Make the following sentences complete by translating the phrases in brackets.

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