English vocabulary: Crime & law – 39 words with pictures, audio & printable flashcards

like something I can show the police?

The next morning, Maya, Claire, and Priya went to the police station together. Maya showed them the contract photo and Daniel's messages. The officer said they knew this man — his real name was not Daniel Marsh.

By law, the royal family in Vienna only received three rounds of applause.

When a name appeared on an Ordnance Survey map, it became the name that administrators used, that inheritance courts referenced, and that schools eventually taught.

he showed me the contract.

This is a cell in the Tower of London.

It was prison, or sometimes worse.

Priya, I think my landlord is a criminal.

They're opening an investigation.

Did you get that email from Dad's lawyer just now??

For hundreds of years, important prisoners lived here.

She had no permit.

He had found the Carnival in 1981, the year that the Brixton riots left a particular kind of bruise on the city— a bruise that the Carnival, that August, had pressed its thumb against and said: we are still here, and we are still beautiful.

She needed a heritage certificate.

ok but this is a small world coincidence, not a conspiracy. why are you looking through his followers?

He was halfway to Rose Bay when he saw the customs patrol boat.

the solicitor called me on the way back.

The smuggling was not about greed.

His father had given it to him on the day he became a barrister.

They were looking for smugglers — men who traded with American merchants without paying the King's taxes.

He thinks the phone is stolen!

The response came three hours later, not from Sokolová but from a law firm in Zurich, informing her that the baton was the subject of an ongoing estate matter and requesting that the Conservatory hold it securely pending further instructions.

He was never formally accused of anything.

no drama. completely innocent.

In February 1554, she was executed.

The burden of proof was on the people who lived there, not the institution that had made the mistake.

Rachel what do you think is in the will?

The merchant's name was on the map, and if the authorities found the document first, that man would go to prison.

he took MY money??

They're opening an investigation.

The Football Association reviewed the incident and found no grounds for formal action.

His father, Gerald Howe, had left the allotment — plot 14B on Fenwick Road — to both his sons.

'The late fine is very large,' Margaret said with a small smile.

'But I will forget the fine.

She sat back in her chair and looked at the baton in its evidence bag on her desk.

'The man at the station is my uncle.

The ring is a secret.

"Secondary beneficiary."

The penalty for smuggling was not just a fine.