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Revision exercises

Revision exercises. Answer the questions:. How can a crime be defined? How can crimes be classified? What is euthanasia? Who are retentionists and what are their main arguments? How is marriage defined? Who cannot marry? Who could obtain a divorce in England before 1969?. What is a will?

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Revision exercises

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  1. Revision exercises

  2. Answer the questions: • How can a crime be defined? • How can crimes be classified? • What is euthanasia? • Who are retentionists and what are their main arguments? • How is marriage defined? • Who cannot marry? • Who could obtain a divorce in England before 1969?

  3. What is a will? • Is will a contract? • What does it mean to die intestate? • What is a constitution? • Which are basic economic rights? • What are social rights? • Name main police powers in Great Britain!

  4. Translate the terms below into English: • lakše kazneno djelo • razvrgnuće braka • supružnik • kriv van svake sumnje • oporučitelj • ukinuti • zapljena imovine

  5. Answer key • lakše kazneno djelo – summary offence • razvrgnuće braka – dissolution of marriage • supružnik – spouse • kriv van svake sumnje – guilty beyond reasonable doubt • oporučitelj - testator • ukinuti – abolish • zapljena imovine – seizure of property

  6. Write the correct form of the verbs in brackets: • If an Englishman marries in a foreign country, the marriage ____________________ (recognise) if the formalities demanded by the law of that country _____________________ (comply with), provided that the formalities required ___________ (be, neg.) repugnant to English law: for instance, if the foreign law forbade marriage between white and coloured people, we ________________ (hold, neg.) a marriage invalid simply because it ______________ (comply, neg.) with such colour-bar legislation. A marriage abroad will also be valid if it ________________ (celebrate) in accordance with the formalities required by the law of the country where it _____________ (take) place, even if those formalities ______________ (be) quite different from the ones required by English law.

  7. If an Englishman marries in a foreign country, the marriage WILL BE RECOGNISED if the formalities demanded by the law of that country ARE COMPLIED WITH, provided that the formalities required ARE NOT repugnant to English law: for instance, if the foreign law forbade marriage between white and coloured people, we WOULD NOT HOLD a marriage invalid simply because it DOES NOT COMPLY with such colour-bar legislation. A marriage abroad will also be valid if it IS CELEBRATED in accordance with the formalities required by the law of the country where it TAKES place, even if those formalities ARE quite different from the ones required by English law.

  8. Translate into Croatian: • Probate of the will _________________ • Burglary___________________________ • Deter _____________________________ • Consanguinity _____________________ • Indictment ________________________ • Void marriage _____________________ • Duress ____________________________ • Pecuniary legatee __________________

  9. Probate of the will SUDBENA OVJERA PRAVOVALJANOSTI OPORUKE • Burglary PROVALA, PROVALNA KRAĐA • Deter ZASTRAŠITI, ODVRATITI • Consanguinity KRVNO SRODSTVO • Indictment PISANA OPTUŽNICA • Void marriage NIŠTAV (NIŠTETAN) BRAK • Duress PRISILA, PRINUDA • Pecuniary legatee OPORUČNI NASLJEDNIK GOTOVINE

  10. Fill in the blanks with the most appropriate word(s) from the list below:deterrent, retentionists, criminal, justice, executing, punishment, abolitionists, imposes • The death penalty may be the most hotly contested area of _________________ procedure. Advocates of capital punishment, known as ___________________, cite the Biblical injunction of «an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth», and see the possibilities of a death sentence as the ultimate _____________________ for violent crime. Opponents, known as ________________________, characterize capital punishment as an outdated barbarism, abolished in most Western nations, and having little real effect on the incidence of crime. Supporters of the death penalty argue that ____________________ those who have killed is just. Capital ___________________ is retribution rather than vengeance; and the state weighs the criminal's culpability and only ______________ the penalty on those most deserving of it. Critics respond that there is no necessary connection between executing criminals and doing _________________.

  11. The death penalty may be the most hotly contested area of CRIMINAL procedure. Advocates of capital punishment, known as RETENTIONISTS, cite the Biblical injunction of «an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth», and see the possibilities of a death sentence as the ultimate DETERRENT for violent crime. Opponents, known as ABOLITIONISTS, characterize capital punishment as an outdated barbarism, abolished in most Western nations, and having little real effect on the incidence of crime. Supporters of the death penalty argue that EXECUTING those who have killed is just. Capital PUNISHMENT is retribution rather than vengeance; and the state weighs the criminal's culpability and only IMPOSES the penalty on those most deserving of it. Critics respond that there is no necessary connection between executing criminals and doing JUSTICE.

  12. Thank you for your attention!

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