Often / carefully

Test 2 on the section

for the 3^rd year students of TSUL

2019-2020 academic year SPRING term

PART1 LANGUAGE FOCUS
TASK I.
GRAMMAR
For each of these sentences, decide which adverbs in the bold DO NOT fit.

1) My work often / carefully / regularly involves litigating charter party disputes, although I occasionally/ sometimes / remarkably handle collision cases as well.

2) Maritime salvage claims can be closely/ extremely/ incredibly challenging due to the complicated legal situation.

3) The remarkably/ quickly/ extremely fast pace of change in the area of information technology law means that lawyers at our firm have to mainly / regularly/ often attend seminars about the effects of new legislation.

4) Researching technical innovations carefully/ extensively/ extremely is a (n) very/ extremely/ regularly interesting step in the process of writing a patent draft.

5) He is currently/usually undertaking a Master’s of e-Law at Monash University.

6) There is something about the challenge of taking a complex commercial transaction and expressing it extremely/clearly and concisely that really appeals to me.
TASK II.
VOCABULARY
Match these words and phrases (7-10) with their definitions (A-D).

7) COMMISSION	when payment is only made following a positive result
8) INTERMEDIARY	the benefit a business gets from having a good reputation
9) A ‘NO CURE, NO PAY’ BASIS	someone who carries messages between people who are unable to meet
10) GOODWILL	payment to someone who sells goods which is directly related to the amount of goods sold

Match the words in the box with their definitions.

BANKRUPTCY LAW AGENCY LAW COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS COMPETITION LAW PRIVATE LAW CONTENTIOUS WORK JURISPRUDENCE DEBTOR AND CREDITOR LAW LEGISLATURE MERCANTILE AGENCY

11) institution which deals with the supply of credit information about business organizations to other businesses and financial institutions.

12) selected body of people, usually elected, invested with the responsibility and power to make and repeal laws for a political unit, such as a state or nation. Congress and Parliament are legislatures.

13) law in regards to financial obligations and legal interactions where one party is unable to pay a monetary debt to another. It may include insolvency, bankruptcy, foreclosures and repossessions.

14) science or philosophy of law, study of legal systems and a collective term used for the body of case law

15) struggle or effort, causing, involving or characterized by argument or controversy pertaining to causes between opposing parties. It commonly involves the consequences of breach of contract and maybe be known as litigation.

16) (UK) body of law that regulates business activities and markets, especially agreements and practices that limit competition; (US antitrust law)

17) dealings and acts of carrying out of commercial functions including procedures of creation, transformation, agreements and exchanges, in conducting and negotiating business and economic activities

18) law regarding a legal procedure for the settling of debts of individuals or businesses unable to pay what they owe. All their property is surrendered to a court-appointed official who liquidates the property to pay the claims of creditors.

19) law regarding the relationship where one person (the agent) acts and is authorized to act for another (the principal)

20) body of law that is concerned relationships between individuals, government is not directly concerned