Intermediate Business Vocabulary

Legal Definitions Matching

For each gap, write the number of the correct definition.

  1. Verdict
  2. Sue
  3. Slander
  4. Prosecute
  5. Jury
  6. Defence
  7. Custody
  8. Acquit

1. A group of people who listen to everything in the trial and then make a decision.

2. Our lawyer is working hard to show we didn't do anything wrong.

3. That person's job is to try to prove someone committed a crime.

4. The court said the person didn't do the crime and let them go.

5. He's taking the other person to court because of a problem they couldn't solve.

6. Someone said untrue things about her, and now everyone thinks she did something bad.

7. Everyone was waiting to hear what the court decided at the end of the trial.

8. After the parents split up, they had to decide who the children would live with.

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