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The legal profession in England and Wales is divided into solicitors and barristers. The duty of the
solicitor is to give advice and to lead the business of the client. He will also have a barrister to care
of a specific matter of the client's business. The solicitors have the right to a brief council, who
will be called in if the situation requires, in order to give specialist advice, to draft documents or to
act as advocates in the higher courts.

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to divide, occasion, to spend, advice, to maintain, artificial
guidance, to disburse, synthetic, to separate, opportunity, to keep up

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The main role in a trial is held by the judge, who is in charge of the following responsibilities: to
conduct the proceedings, to point out the matters which have to be clarified, to ask questions to the
parties and witnesses, to examine the documents and the evidence, to present the summary of the
case to the jury, to interpret the laws and to pass the sentence. The jury is formed by twelve
persons, called jurors, aged between 21 and 60 years old.

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legal, plaintiff, defence, straightforward
indirect, illegal, prosecution, defendant

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The role of the judge in a court of law is a passive one. He has the role of the arbiter of the law,
who controls the trial and directs the jury. The length of a trial may vary from a few hours to a
month or more; the average length of a contested case is just under nine hours, which is about two
days of court time.

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dispute, counsellor, to judge, proceeding, eye-witness, to set up, to plead guilty
piece of conduct, controversy, debate, to start, to confess guilt, adviser, to try, bystander

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Regarding the organization of the family, there are a lot of information recorded by Herodot, Ovid
and Horatio. There was monogamy and the future husband had to buy his bride from her parents.
On the other hand, the future wife had to bring to her new house a dowry consisting in money or
goods. Ovid affirmed that woman was on an inferior level compared to that of man. She worked
hard and she was sentenced to death if she had committed adultery.

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increasingly, satisfied, simple, to spend, subjective, to maintain, artificial
to discontinue, decreasingly, to earn, genuine, unsatisfied, objective, complex
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In civil proceedings, the plaintiff usually must prove the facts on which the claim is based. This
means that the plaintiff has the burden of proof, which in the civil cases is said to be on the
balance of probabilities. In other words, the plaintiff must satisfy the judge through admissible
evidence, which is more reliable than his statements which he pretends to be true.

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to require, shoplifting, contention, veracity, to contest, fraud
controversy, to demand, theft, honesty, to testify, deception

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Truth is the accurate reflection of the objective reality in thinking, by comparing what exists with
what really happens.
The objective truth reflects the existing reality, which is independent from the human
consciousness. The criterion and the source of truth are the social-historical experience of
humankind, which makes the process of finding out the truth as one continuous and unlimited in
time.

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to require, veracity, contention, to believe, partial
to disbelieve, to forgo, dishonesty, impartial, disagreement

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The relative truth is the reflection of reality, which is just, but approximate. For example, the
scientific fact is a relative truth. Using the relative truth, the human consciousness permanently
aims to the absolute truth.
The absolute truth includes all the relative truth in its progressive and infinite historical sequence.
Any relative truth contains elements of absolute truth.

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concurrently, to strengthen, to attest, combat, conclusion, wealth, disposal
stipulation, simultaneously, fortune, to accentuate, settlement, to certify, duel

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The solicitor is consulted if a person needs the assistance of a law for a certain problem, like: a
divorce, a fight with the neighbours, setting of a business, to make a will or to sell a property. The
barrister is consulted if a person has a more serious and difficult problem, which need to be judged
in a civil or criminal court of law. This will represent him in the court and will plead for his case.
The barrister will take part in the trial as part of the Council for the Prosecution, as council for the
plaintiff, or of the Council for the defence, as council for the defendant.

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written, equality, monogamy, difference, private
collective, unwritten, resemblance, polygamy, inequality
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Barristers work in offices, in groups of between twelve and twenty sharing services notably of a
clerk, but also secretarial and other services. Each chamber is required to have at least one clerk,
who performs the functions of office administrator and accountant, business manager and agent.
After around ten to fifteen years in practice, a successful barrister can consider applying for
promotion to Queen's Counsel.

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fundamental, consequence, obligation, compulsory
obligatory, effect , essential, responsibility

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Usually, the decision of the jury cannot be changed by an appeal. The Court of Appeal will not
reopen a case or reconsider the decision made by the jury, unless there had been a mistake in the
use of the right procedure. If this happens, it means that the judge will fail to conduct the trial
correctly and the case is retried by the Court of Appeal.

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fundamental, negligence, private, compulsory
public, care, voluntary, secondary

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At the same time with the extension of the slave-owning system, the differences of wealth
strengthened the great private property. In Dacia there were great landholders that used the labour
of the slaves. Besides the private property, there existed the collective property of the territorial
community.

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to assert, accurate, absolute, criterion, source, really, relative, permanent, humankind
origin, to declare, precise, principle, perfect, lasting, pertinent, mankind, indeed

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Nowadays, it is possible to acquit a convict if ten jurors agree on a verdict, even if the jury consists
of eleven or twelve jurors, or if nine agree when the jury consists of ten jurors. If a member of a
twelve parties jury dies during the course of a trial, the trial will go on, even if the decision will
have to be reached by eleven jurors. It will stop if the number of jurors decreases below ten.

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truth, accurate, reality, respective, false
true, irrespective, fiction, lie, inaccurate.