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Question		Answer
Acceptance start learning		approval of an offer, agreement to an offer
Assault start learning		attacking someone verbally
Attain start learning		be in a certain age (osiągnąć jakiś wiek)
Battery start learning		when physical force is involved, harming sb physically
Compensatory damages start learning		pecuniary or non-pecuniary damages
Consideration start learning		sth that parties exchange under the contract - (e.g. money, goods, services, promises or promise not to do sth)
Contract start learning		offer + acceptance + consideration
Counter-offer start learning		kind of response giving to the original offer
Crop up start learning		to term out, to appear
Damages start learning		monetary compensation
Defamation start learning		writing or telling bad things about sb to ruin this person’s reputation
Defects in a contract start learning		mistake, duress (przymus), undue influence, misrepresentation (fałszywe oświadczenie), illegality of subject matter, lack of legal capacity; all of these can be grants for invalidating contract
Donee start learning		a person or organization that is given power of attorney (= the legal right to make decisions for someone); a person ororganization that receives something of value such as money or goods (donor/donee)
Donor start learning		a person who gives money or something else of value to an organization (C.?)
Duress start learning		threats used to force a person to do sth
Emotional distress start learning		moral damages
Forbearance start learning		the quality of being patient and being able to forgive someone or control yourself in a difficult situation; patient, self-control
Force imprisonment start learning		when a person is kept locked without any legal grants
Force majeure start learning		an unexpected event such as a war, crime, or an earthquake which prevents someone from doing something that is written in a legal agreement
Holder, offeror start learning		sb who present an offer Illegality of subject matter
Indemnity start learning		promise to pay if loss or harm occurs/appears
Joint and several liability start learning		being liable separately (individual) and as a group
Lack of legal capacity start learning		person who has not 18 or sb that has in full or partially incapacitated by court
Libel start learning		written or recorded kind of defamation
Minor start learning		sb who is under the age of eighteen
Misrepresentation start learning		misleading as sb as to defects in a contract, lying about sth in a contracts (representation
Negligence start learning		kind of carelessness in performing obligations
Non-pecuniary damages start learning		concern loss which is difficult to measured
Nuisance start learning		it is interfering with once’s enjoyment of other property,
Offer start learning		kind of proposal to enter into a contract
Offeree start learning		sb that is offered sth
Pecuniary damages start learning		concern loss which can be easily measured
Principal start learning		first in order of importance; chief, main, primary (C.)
Principle start learning		a basic idea or rule that explains or controls how something happens or works, (C.)
Punitive damages start learning		an amount of money that someone who commits a crime has to pay, that is intended to be large enough to prevent them or others from committing similar crimes in the future (C.), exemplary damages
Restitution start learning		the return of objects that were lost or stolen
Restoration start learning		the return or sth but also renovation
Slander start learning		speaking bad things about sb
Surety start learning		a person who accepts legal responsibility for another person's debt or behaviour, or money given as a promise that someone will do something that they have promised to do, such as pay a debt or appear in court (C.)
Term of an agreement start learning		term when the contract is biding
To act with due diligence start learning		to act reasonable
To be endowed with start learning		to have a particular quality or characteristic (C.)
To be on the hook for sth start learning		to be legally responsible for sth
To reimburse start learning		to pay back someone’s costs
Tort start learning		civil wrong causing harm to sb
Tortfeasor start learning		a person who commits the tort
Trespass to land start learning		when sb enters sb’s property without permission
Trespass to the person start learning		assault, battery, force imprisonment
Undue influence start learning		relationship when one of a parties has a stronger position because of their authority
Uphold start learning		to maintain someone’s decision
Vicarious liability start learning		being responsible for someone else’s actions
Być wtajemniczonym do czegoś start learning		privy to sth
Być sprzecznym z czymś start learning		to be contrary to
Na rzecz kogoś start learning		in favour of; for the benefit of sb
Pecuniary start learning		monetary
Strict liability start learning		absolute liability irrespective any faults
Przy pomocy kogoś start learning		by means of

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