VARIETIES OF ENGLISH
Legal English
1)
None of those cases has any application to a ticket which is issued by an
automatic machine. The customer pays his money and gets a ticket. He cannot refuse
it. He cannot get his money back. He may protest to the machine, even swear at it. But
it will remain unmoved. He is committed beyond recall. He was committed at the very
moment when he put his money into the machine. The contract was concluded at that
time. It can be translated into offer and acceptance in this way: the offer is made when
the proprietor of the machine holds it out as being ready to receive the money. The
acceptance takes place when the customer puts him money into the slot. The terms of
the offer are contained in the notice placed on or near the machine stating what is
offered for the money. The customer is bound by those terms as long as they are
sufficiently brought to his notice beforehand, but not otherwise. He is not bound by
the terms printed on the ticket if they differ from the notice, because the ticket comes
too late. The contract has already been made: see Olley v. Marlborough Court Ltd…
The ticket is no more than a voucher or receipt for the money that has been paid … on
terms which have been offered and accepted before the ticket is issued.
In the present case the offer was contained in the notice at the entrance
giving the charges and saying "at owner's risk," i.e. at the risk of the owner so far
as damage to the car concerned. The offer was accepted when Mr. Thornton drove
up to the entrance and, by the movement of his car, turned the light from red to
green, and the ticket was thrust at him. The contract was concluded, and it could
not be altered by any words printed on the ticket itself. In particular, it could not
been altered so as to exempt the company from liability for personal injury due to
their negligence.
2)
Each Member State shall during the first stage ensure and subsequently
maintain the application of the principle that men and women should receive equal
pay for equal work.
For the purpose of this Article, 'pay' means the ordinary basic or minimum
wage or salary and any other consideration, whether in cash or in kind, which the
worker receives, directly or indirectly, in respect of his employment from his
employer.
Equal pay without discrimination based on sex means:
(a) that pay for the same work at piece rates shall be calculated on the
basis of the same unit of measurement;
(b) that pay for work at time rates shall be the same for the
same job.
(E.C., Art. 119)
3)
You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not
mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court. Anything you
do say may be given in evidence.
4)
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice
and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same…
5)
Every person who insures or receives any consideration for insuring for or
against the drawing of any ticket in any lottery whatever, whether drawn or to be
drawn within this State or not, or who receives any valuable consideration upon any
agreement to repay any sum, or deliver the same, or any other property, if any lottery
ticket or number of any ticket in any lottery shall prove fortunate or unfortunate, or
shall be drawn or not be drawn, at any particular time or in any particular order, or
who promises or agrees to pay any sum of money, or to deliver any goods, things in
action, or property, or to forbear to do anything for the benefit of any person, with or
without consideration, upon any event or contingency dependent on the drawing of
any ticket in any lottery, or who publishes any notice or proposal of any of the
purposes aforesaid, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Californian Penal Code)