UNIT 6 . THE FOUNDATION OF THE BRITISH LAW: THE PETITION OF RIGHT, THE BILL OF RIGHTS

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UNIT 5 . THE FOUNDATION OF THE BRITISH LAW: HABEAS CORPUS ACT

VOCABULARY LIST

1. Habeas Corpus Act

2. To guarantee

3. To be held in prison without trial

4. Notoriously

5. Rowdy

6. Constable

7. Justice of the peace

8. To commit sb to jail/prison

9. To be brought to trial

10. Treatment

11. To cause an outcry

12. To be put on a punishment diet

13. Barbaric

14. Public anger

15. To acquit sb

16. Warrant

17. To be severely reprimanded

18. To pass a law/an act

19. To declare

20. To be suspended

21. Rebellion

22. Invasion

23. writ

24. In the name of the people

25. Sovereign

26. To produce sb in court

27. An imprisoned person

28. To commit a criminal offence

29. To appeal to the Crown/to turn to the Crown with a petition

30. Prison warden

31. To verify the validity of imprisonment

32. To be subject to arrest

33. Without sufficient grounds

34. To put sb in custody

35. To produce a warrant

36. The Petition of Right

37. To show resistance

38. Under the Stuart succession

39. To acquire a weapon of financial control

40. Gentry

41. To refuse royal requests for money

42. To force sb to do sth

43. To restrict the monarch's powers

44. To prevent sb from doing sth

45. To raise taxes

46. The Bill of Rights

47. To be conditional on sb/sth

48. Arbitrary government

49. Illegal practice

50. to proscribe

51. prerogative

52. to dispense with the law

53. suspension of laws

54. without the consent of the Parliament

55. levying of taxes

56. maintenance of a standing army

57. without parliamentary authorization

58. clause

59. interference

60. to eliminate royal interference

61. freedom of speech

62. the course of justice

63. proximate succession to the throne

64. heir

65. Protestant

66. To abuse sb's authority

67. Supreme authority

68. To act on sb's authority

69. Local authorities

70. To have authority with sb

71. He is an authority on law

72. To quote one's authorities

73. To abuse sb's authority

74. The authority of Parliament

75. Lawful authority

76. On good authority

77. To have/to exercise authority

78. Unrestricted authority

79. To vest sb with authority

80. To hand over one's authority to sb

81. To undermine sb's authority

82. Law-enforcement authorities/agencies

83. Competent authority

84. To gain in authority

85. The Glorious Revolution

86. To be dethroned/overthrown

87. To be suspected of sth

88. Under the Act of Settlement

89. To succeed to/to ascend/to mount the throne

90. Coronation/crowning

91. The right to trial by jury