简答题Before William defeated the English king Harold at the Battle of Hastings, the English-speaking ruling class was largely supplanted by one that spoke ________. A、English B、Norman French C、Latin D、Italian简答题The word ______ eventually began to refer to meetings to engage in pleading exercises and to argue hypothetical cases used in the English Inns of Court to train further barristers. A、doom B、moot C、deem D、seem简答题In the American system there are extensive proceedings before trial during which each side has the right to obtain information about the mother's case, a process called______. A、depositions B、discovery C、interrogation D、argumentation简答题Another syntactic device, like passive constructions, also can have the effect of de-emphasizing or obscuring the identity of the actor. This is the phenomenon of (1).简答题Nominalization is usually more difficult to process than their corresponding verb forms.简答题Beginning in the 1280s and continuing through 1535, anonymous writers created reports of oral proceedings in court, which were compiled in the _________. A、law reports B、year books C、Latin tract D、Legal teaching material简答题As in the courtroom, formal and ritualistic language in wills and similar documents can signal to the parties that this is a legal act with significant consequences. Some scholars have called this the _______. A、testamentary intent B、cautionary function C、ritual function D、contract简答题Much like today’s digests, the _______ consisted of alphabetical headings, followed by synopses of cases dealing with that topic. A、abridgment B、precedent C、case reports简答题The influence extended to legal matters by the Roman church is the ___________. A、Dane law B、canon law C、customary law D、common law简答题A substantive area of the law with a relatively high level of Latin vocabulary is (1).简答题Referential descriptions seem to be lost inherent in public laws, which should apply evenly throughout the population.简答题Equity is a body of rules that developed in England separately from the “common law”, but it only exists in countries which follow the English common law tradition.简答题How well the general approach works depends entirely on the skill and the good will of those who must carry it out.简答题The Germanic invaders spoke closely related languages that came to form what we call ___________ or Old English. A、Anglo-Saxon B、Germany C、Roman D、Italian简答题After the lawyers have produced evidence to prove or negate the plaintiff’s story, they make their summation or (1)(2).简答题Many states have abandoned the statutory list approach and adopted the general and more flexible (1), which simply requires that the trustee act like a prudent investor.简答题Some characteristics of “talking like a lawyer” or writing like one can be best described as matters of _______. A、 register B、genre C、style D、field简答题A (1)(2) suggests that there is only one correct answer, and in essence tries to “lead” the witness to that answer.简答题The court’s primary rationale was that the instructions were complex not just because of language, but because of their complex content, making them hard to master on first exposure, and perhaps too difficult for jurors to understand at all.简答题An ordinary story is normally alleged as truth; in contrast, the story told in a complaint is asserted to be true.