Check your vocabulary for Law – Multiple meanings

Multiple Meanings
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SOME WORDS HAVE more than one meaning. For example a party is a person involved in a legal dispute (“One of the parties to the dispute has died”) but it is also a political organization (“Lincoln was a member of the Republican Party”)... Can you identify the following eight words? Two or three meanings are given for each word.
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1. This word means:
__a meeting or a series of meetings: “There is a Democratic _____in August”.
__an international treaty: “All the countries agreed to a new arms _____.”
__the way something is usually done: “We have a________ that the President enters first.”
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2. This word means:
__money invested or borrowed: “You don’t pay off the _______ until the end of the loan period.”
__A person or company represented by agents: “The agent has come to London to see his ____”.
__person responsible for something: “Whose name appears on the contract as ____?”
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3. This word means:
__something which is for sale: “This _______ is very attractively priced.”
__a section of a legal agreement: “if you look at ______7 of the contract you’ll see why.”
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4. This word means:
__ an area of land: “The _______ is 100 square kilometers.”
__ property left by a dead person: “His _______ was worth US1.5m.
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5. This word means:
__proper, correct: “We will not release the documents without _______ procedure being followed”
__owed: “The next payment is ________ on October 5th.
__ expected to arrive: “He isn’t _______ until seven o’clock.
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6. This word means:
__to say something clearly: “I ______ now that my client is completely innocent.”
__independent country: “All citizens have obligations to the ____.”
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7. This word means:
__special attention: “I took a particular ______ in this case.”
__money paid for the use of money: “What is the current rate of ____?”
__ownership of shares in a company: “He has a majority _________ in a newspaper.”
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8. This word means:
__to put into words or diagrams: “You must _______ the idea more clearly.”
__very fast: “I’ll send the papers to you ______.”
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ANSWERS:
1. convention – 2. principal – 3. article – 4. estate – 5. due – 6. state – 7. interest – 8. express