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Business law 1 : Key adjectives
A. Exercise 1
1. Accountable (responsible for what had happened)
2. admissible (being acceptable because it is true or relevant)
3. impartial (not biased or prejudiced)
4. intangible (difficult to value as it does not exist physically)
5. pecuniary (financial)
6. unprecedented (not having happened before)
7. void (not having any legal effect)
8. valid (referring to evidence which a court will allow to be used)
9. unanimous (where everyone votes in the same way)
10. eligible (able or allowed to do something)
11. gross differences of opinion (very strong, so that it is not possible for two
sides to reach an agreement)
12. Irreconcilable (serious)
13. Deductible (able to be removed)
14. Insolvent (not able to pay debts)
15. Fiduciary (acting as trustee for someone else, or being in a position of
trust)
B. Exercise 2
1. Occupational (referring to jobs and work)
2. mandatory (obligatory or necessary according to the law or rules)
3. exempt from (not required to pay, or not covered by law)
4. negotiable (able to be changed by discussion)
5. verbatim (in the exact words)
6. unconditional (with no conditions attached)
7. fraudulent (not honest, aiming to deceive people for financial gain)
8. feasible (possible or practical)
9. redundant (no longer needed or valid)
10. habitual (doing something repeatedly)
11. solvent (having enough money to pay debts)
12. material (important or relevant)
13. Nominal (a very small amount)
14. Corporate (referring to a company)
15. open-ended (with no fixed period, or with some items not specified)
16. Litigious (very willing to bring a lawsuit against someone to settle a
disagreement)
Business law 2: Key nouns
C. Business law 2: Key nouns
1. Nominee A person who is appointed to deal with financial or other matters
on behalf of another person
2. Franchise A licence to trade using a brand name and paying a royalty for it
3. Ombudsman An official who investigates complaints by the public against
government departments or other large organisations (especially banks,
travel companies, and electricity, gas, water and telecommunications
providers)
4. Guarantor Somebody who gives a guarantee
5. Breach A failure to carry out the terms of an agreement, a contract, etc
6. Acceptance One of the main conditions of a contract, where one party
agrees to what is proposed by the other party. Also the act of signing a bill of
exchange to show that you agree to pay for it
7. Perjury The notifiable offence of telling lies when you have made an oath to
say what is true in court
8. Tortfeasor Somebody who has committed a civil wrong to somebody,
entitling the victim to claim damages
9. Compensation A payment made by a person or company to cover the cost
of damage or hardship which he / she / it has caused
10. Mediation An attempt by a third party to make the two sides in an
argument agree
11. Debanture A document in which a company acknowledges it owes a debt
and gives the company's assets as security
12. Liquidation The closing of a company and the selling of its assets
13. Demages Money claimed by a claimant from a defendant because of harm
or damage done, or money awarded by a court to a claimant as a result of
harm suffered by the claimant (Clue: this word has already appeared
elsewhere in this exercise)
14. Liability The legal responsibility for paying someone for loss or damage
incurred
15. Negligence A failure to give proper care to something, especially a duty or
responsibility, with the result that a person or property is harmed
16. Goodwill The good reputation of a business and its contacts with its
customers (for example, the name of the product it sells or its popular appeal
to customers)
17. Injuction A court order telling a person or a company to stop doing
something, or telling them not to do it in the first place
VERTICAL STRIP : Misrepresentation The company promised us that they would
send us the goods by March 31st, but since then we have discovered that they knew
they couldn't get them to us until the end of May. We lost a lot of money as a result,
so we are going to sue them for
Business law 3: Key verbs
D. Accross
1. to indemnify (to pay for loss or damage suffered)
2. to undertake (to promise to do something)
3. to adjudicate (to give a judgement between two parties)
4. to liquidate (to sell assets or stock to raise cash)
5. entitled (to have or give someone the right to do something)
6. to mediate (to try to make two sides in an argument come to an agreement)
7. to draft (to make a first rough plan of a document such as a contract)
8. to appoint (to choose someone for a job)
9. to elapse (of time: to pass)
10. to defraud (to trick someone so as to obtain money or goods illegally)
11. to disclose (to tell details)
12. to ban (to forbid something, or make it illegal)
13. to invalidate (to make something no longer valid)
14. to waive (to say that something is not necessary)
15. to grant (to agree to give someone something, or to allow someone to do
something)
E. Down
16. to ratify (to approve officially something that has already been decided)
17. to blacklist (to put goods people or a company on a list of those that you will
not deal with)
18. to default (to fail to carry out the terms of a contract, especially to fail to pay
back a debt)
19. to forclose (to take possession of a property because the owner cannot repay
money he / she has borrowed using the property as security)
20. to dispute (to argue against something; to say that something is not correct)
21. to award (to decide the amount of money to be given to someone)
22. to subcontract (to agree with a company that they will do all or part of the
work for a project)
23. to infringe (to make a product in the same way as another product which has
been patented, and not pay royalties)
24. to certify (to make an official declaration in writing)
25. to exempt (to free someone from having to pay tax)
26. to wind up (to put a company into liquidation)
27. to allege (to state, usually in giving evidence, that something has happened
or is true)
28. to abide by (to accept a rule or follow a custom)
29. to vest the property (to transfer to someone the legal ownership and
possession of land or a right)
30. to claim (to ask for money)
31. to seek (to ask for or try to do something)
32. to strike (to stop working because there is no agreement with management)
33. to let (to allow someone to use a building in return for money)
