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Juristisches Deutsch und Amtsdeutsch, Part 1 of 7
Name the parties in a legal document ("der Unterzeichnende", "der Antragsteller", "der Bevollmächtigte") with the right endings, and use the fixed formulas that open and close it.
Juristisches Deutsch und Amtsdeutsch, Part 2 of 7
Find your way through the German courts from the "Amtsgericht" to the "Bundesverfassungsgericht", name the people who work in them, and tell "der Beklagte" from "der Angeklagte".
Transformations: Von Amtsdeutsch zu klarem Deutsch
Unpack noun chains, passives and Funktionsverbgefüge into plain German a neighbour would understand, and pack plain German back into the style of a formal letter.
Juristisches Deutsch und Amtsdeutsch, Part 3 of 7
Tell laws, regulations and a "Bescheid" apart, understand the "Rechtsbehelfsbelehrung" that ends it, and express obligation the legal way: "ist zu entrichten", "hat vorzulegen", "ist verpflichtet".
Word Web: Wer ist wer im Verfahren
Name the people in civil, criminal and administrative proceedings and use the verbs that connect them: "klagen", "verklagen", "anklagen", and "Einspruch", "Berufung" or "Revision einlegen".
Mastery Check: Legal and Administrative German, Part 1 of 2
Check that you can name parties and courts, decode a "Bescheid" and its "Rechtsbehelfsbelehrung", turn rules into plain requests, and use adjectival nouns with the right endings (Parts 1-3).
Contrast Clinic: Urteil, Beschluss, Verfügung, Bescheid
Tell the kinds of decision apart ("Urteil", "Beschluss", "einstweilige Verfügung", "Bescheid", "Strafbefehl") and choose the right German word for an English appeal.
Real-World Mission: Ein Schreiben ans Amt
Write a formal letter to the "Bürgeramt" or "Ausländerbehörde", from "Betreff" and "Aktenzeichen" to "Anlagen", and lodge a reasoned "Widerspruch" against a "Bescheid".
Unit 1 review: Legal & Administrative German
Listen, speak and write with what you learned in this unit (Legal & Administrative German), then translate three sentences.
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