Legal Systems and Legal Terminology
저자: lorena ballesteros
1. Goes back to medieval times, when de judicial principles that where found to be shared by lawgivers in many regions of England gradually gaineduniversal recognition in the whole country.
2. The legal translator communicates two means without departing from the contextual meaning of the translated
3. Vocabulary o Litigation
4. English Criminal Court
5. The major distiction between Anglo-American criminal law and that of the "Civil law" or "Roman law", countries is that the former is generally recognized as being adversarial rather than inquisitorial.
6. In England and Wales, there is at least one of these in virtually every country, so the name of the court coinsides with the administrative divisions of the regions.
7. The branches of English Law Juridiction and the court structure
8. Many countries with legal sistems based on the continental or napoleonic code of law recognize four distinct jurisdictions : civil law, criminal law, administrative law, employment law.
9. Country Court
10. The Higth Court
11. The court of the Appeal
12. The Houese of lords
13. As the table Shows, this court, wich together with the crown court, court of appeal and house of Lords constitutes the "Supreme Court of Judicature" is divided into three divitions.
14. In the light of wath we have just said, trasnlators should be aware that the court
15. The firts point to be made here is that the house of Lords, as the highest court in the land and the court of last resort, most be carrefurlly distinguished from the upper house or shamber in the british parliamentary system.
16. Legal background
17. Common Law
18. Sources of English law
19. Considerer the reference made in the followigng texts:
20. Equity
21. Statute Law
22. It's used in the original etymological sense of fairnes justice,
23. The most important sourse of english law is statute (legislacion, texts the loi, Kodifiziertes Gesetz), i.e. the griten laws or legislation drafted and passed by parliament .
24. In all modern democratic states, private disputes that reach the court in the form of litication come down to confrontation or context between two sides, with the judges acting as umpires and applying the ruls of the contest between the disputans.