A general election (всеобщиевыборы)
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an election in whichrepresentatives are chosen in all constituencies of a state
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US a final election from whichsuccessful candidates are sent to a legislative body. Compareprimary13
3. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in the US) a national or stateelection or (in Canada) a federal or provincial election in contrast to a local election
Hereditarypeers / lifepeers (наследственные и пожизненные пэры)
Hereditary peers form part of the peerage in the UnitedKingdom. There areover eight hundred peers who hold titles that may be inherited
In the UK, life peers are appointed members of the peeragewhose titles cannot be inherited, in contrast to hereditary peers.
Toamendalaw (вносить поправки в закон)
to alter or change by adding, subtracting, or substituting. One can amend astatute, a contract or a written pleading filed in a law suit. The change isusually called an amendment.
6. toscrutin i se(тщательно исследовать, изучать, проверять)
to look at critically or searchingly; examine carefully for accuracy with the intent ofverification; "audit accounts and tax returns"
Justice of the Peace (JP) – Мировойсудья, онже magistrate
An official, especially one associated with a town or county, withjudicial power over certain civil cases involving small amounts ofdamages and certain criminal cases involving minor offenses, as wellas exercising other limited powers, such as the power to perform marriages and to authorize arrests.
Offence(правонарушение, преступление)
1. a violation or breach of a law, custom, rule, etc
2. a. any public wrong or crime
b. a nonindictable crime punishable on summary conviction
Precedent
a. An act or instance that may be used as an example indealing with subsequent similar instances.
b. Law A judicial decision that is binding on other equal or lowercourts in the same jurisdiction
Charter (хартия)
1. A document issued by a sovereign, legislature, or other authority,creating a public or private corporation, such as a city, college, orbank, and defining its privileges and purposes.
Sheriff
1.A public officer in various other countries performing certain lawenforcement, judicial, or ceremonial functions.
2. chief executive officer of the Crown in a county, having chieflyceremonial duties.
Manor (феодальноепоместье)
1. a. A landed estate.
b. The main house on an estate; a mansion.
2. a. The district over which a lord had domain and could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.
b. The lord's residence in such a district.
Earl (граф)
(Historical Terms) (in Anglo-Saxon England)
a royal governor of anyof the large divisions of the kingdom, such as Wessex
Bishop (епископ)
a clergyman having spiritual and administrativepowers over a diocese or province of the Church.
a senior member of the Christian clergy, typically in charge of a diocese and empowered to confer holy orders
Toadministerjustice (осуществлять, отправлять правосудие)
The administration of justice is the process by which the legal system of a government is executed. The presumed goal of such administration is to provide justice for all those accessing the legal system.
16. succession (правопреемство, порядокнаследования)
a. The sequence in which one person after another succeeds toa title, throne, or position.
b. The right of a person or a line of persons to so succeed.
17. v a ssal (вассал)
a man who entered into apersonal relationship with a lord to whom he paid homage and fealtyin return for protection and often a fief.
Private warfare (междоусобица)
A bitter, often prolonged quarrel or state of enmity, especially such astate of hostilities between two families or clans.
Hostilities against members of another state that take place without government sanction
Due (сборы, пошлины)
an obligatory payment; a fee.
A charge or fee for membership, as in a club or organization.
20. s e cular (светский)
Not relating to religion or to a religious body; nonreligious:
Grievance (жалоба)
a. An actual or supposed circumstance regarded as just causefor complaint.
b. A complaint or protestation based on such a circumstance:
trial by ordeal (ордалия, судбожий)
an ancient test of guilt or innocence by subjection of the accused to severe pain, survival of which was taken as divine proof of innocence.
A method of trial in which the accused was subjected to pain ordanger as a means of invoking God's intercession, with the outcomeregarded as revealing a divine determination of guilt or innocence.