2. Read the text again to answer the following questions:

1. What categories did the common law originally divide crimes into?

2. What crimes were generally punishable with death?

3. What were felonies resulted in?

4. What crimes were generally punishable with fines or imprisonment?

5. Was to arrest a suspect on suspicion generally permissible in felony or in misdemeanor?

6. Arrestable of­fenses are ones punishable with five years' imprisonment, aren't they?

7. What is the traditional classification between felony and misdemean­our used as?

3. Translate the following words and word combinations from English into Russian:

common law, felony, the graver crimes, forfeiture, misdemeanour, mat­ter, to arrest a suspect, to commit an offense, permissible in felony, inconsistent with the gravity of the offenses concerned, irrespective of the amount stolen, obtaining by fraud, efforts, to abolish, imprisonment, to replace, perpetrator, distinction, to succeed, various purposes.

4. Find the English equivalents to the following words and phrases:

виновный в совершении преступления, приобретение путем мошенничества, тюремное заключение, судебная практика, конфи­скация, мисдиминор, обвинение, допустимый, тяжесть, наказуемый, воро­вать, подозреваемое лицо, арест по подозрению, общее право, не­совместимый, фелония, арестовывать, штраф, кража, судебная практика, злоумышленник.

5. Match the words from the left column with their definitions from the right column.

1. law	a. the act of committing a serious crime such as murder or rape; a crime of this type
2. felony	b. an illegal act
3. permissible	c. to use the power of the law to take and keep (someone, such as a criminal)
4. forfeiture	d. an official organization whose job is to make people obey the law and to prevent and solve crime
5. offence	i. the whole system of rules that everyone in a country or society must obey
6. police	f. the act of forfeiting something
7. to arrest	g. to have an idea that something is probably true or likely to happen, especially something bad, but without having definite proof
8. to suspect	h. acceptable according to the law or a particular set of rules

6. Fill in the gaps using the necessary words from exercise 5.

1. In Sweden it is against the … to hit a child.

2. The crime is considered a … under state law.

3. These levels of nitrates in water are … .

4. Assets … is a form of confiscation of assets by the state, pursuant to law.

5. He was not aware that he had committed an … .

6. Get out of the house or I'll call the … .

7. A man has been … in connection with the robbery.

8. The police … the criminal of committing a crime.

7. Choose the correct word to make the sentence complete.

1. Most legal systems find it necessary to divide into categories for various deals / purposes / cases connected with the procedure of the courts - determin­ing, for instance, which kind of court may deal with which kind of offence.

2. The common law originally combined / divided / summed crimes into two categories - felonies (the graver crimes, generally punishable with death, which resulted in forfeiture of the perpetrator's land and goods to the crown) and misdemeanours.

3. There were many differences in the procedure of the courts accord­ing to whether the charge was felony or misdemeanour, and other mat­ters that depended / answered / treated on the distinction included the power of the police to arrest a suspect on suspicion that he had committed an offense, since to arrest a suspect was generally permissible in felony, but not in misde­meanour.

4. Efforts to abolish the similarity / distinction / phenomenon in English law did not succeed until 1967, when the distinction was replaced by that between arrestable offenses and other offenses.

5. The traditional race / classification / nomenclature between felony and misdemeanour has been retained in many U.S. jurisdictions and is used as the basis of determining the court that will hear the case.