Lesson 387 Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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Lesson 387

dozen = twelve The judge works at the court and punishes the thief. The thief is the accused. The prosecutor speaks against the thief. The lawyer speaks for the thief / defends the thief. When the judge, the lawyer and the prosecutor talk about the thief’s doings, they hear his case. mustn't do = may not do / not permitted to do The judge has a big book, where is written what we can’t / mustn’t do. In the book, there are laws. break the law = do something against the law seriously ill = very ill for sure = surely 1) A dozen bottles of good wine A man had to go to court and asked his lawyer which judge would hear his case. His lawyer told him and asked, "do you know him?" The man replied, "no, but I wanted to know his name so I could send him a dozen bottles of good wine." The lawyer was terribly shocked. "You can't do that," he said, "you would very seriously break the law and lose the case for sure." A few weeks later, the case was heard and the man won. When he left the court, he said to his lawyer, "My gift to the judge was quite successful, wasn't it?" The lawyer was even more shocked than before and asked, "what? Did you really send him this wine, after what I explained to you?" "Yes, of course," the man replied, "but I put my opponent's name on the card I sent with the wine."

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