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Basic Vocabulary

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  • Contentious Strittig
  • Quirk Schrulle, Laune (des Schicksals)
  • Turgid Hochtrabend
  • Cumbersome Bürokratisch, lästig
  • Rearing (syn) Upbringing
  • Verity (syn) Truth, Reality
  • Tacit Stillschweigend. Wortlos
  • Apex Scheitelpunkt, Gipfel
  • Apogee (syn) Highest Point
  • Hub Nabe, Nabel, Mittelpunkt
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  • Nurture Hegen, pflegen (a. fig.)
  • To accrete (syn) To accumulate
  • Posterity Nachwelt
  • posterity Nachwelt
  • Anomal (syn) Unusual, Out of the ordinary
  • Besotted Vernarrt
  • Vast Riesig
  • Intricate kompliziert
  • Inference (syn) Conclusion
  • Reasonably prudent person Hypothetical Person, vernünftig handelnder
  • Bailiff Law enforcement Officer, Gerichtsvollzieher
  • Sachverständiger Expert Witness
  • Person who Appeals a Demission to a higher Court Uk: appellant, US: petitioner
  • Eidesstattliche Erklärung Affidavit
  • Brief Document or Set of documents containing Details of the case
  • Complaint In civil law, the First pleading filed on behalf of a plaintiff, which initiates a lawsuit, Setting forth the Fachs on which the Claim is based
  • Einstweilige Verfügung Temporary injunction
  • Injunction Official Order from a Court for a Person to stop Doing something
  • Motion An application to a Court to obtain an Order, Ruling or decision (Antrag)
  • Antrag Motion, Application
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  • Pleading A formal Witten Statement Setting forth the cause of Action or the Defence in a case
  • Writ (a. Claim form) A document informing someone that they will be involved in a legal process and Instructing them what they Must do.
  • to embellish to make something look nicer, to beautify
  • Dokument entwerfen to draft a document
  • ein Dokument bei einer Behoerde einreichen to file a document with an authority
  • ein dokument bei einer Behoerde einreichen (zur Entscheidung) to submit a document to an authority
  • querschnittgelähmt(er) paraplegic, paraplegia
  • Wiederholungsgefahr danger/risk of recurrance
  • übernommenes unternehmen acquired company  
  • für diesen zweck (E, Lat) for this purpose, ad hoc
  • jemanden als Anwalt zulassen (US) to admit someone to the bar
  • eidesstattliche erklärung affidavit
  • übertragen ( z. B. Eigentum) transfer
  • Übertragbarkeit alienability
  • Hauptversammlung (AG) annual general meeting
  • Erwiderung answer, principal pleading by the defendant in response to a complaint  
  • Vertragsverletzung vor Fälligkeit anticipatory breach of contract
  • wettbewerbswidrig (UK) anti-competitive
  • Kartellrecht antitrust (US), competition law (UK).
  • Anwaltschaft advocacy