MV215Zk Latin For Lawyers II - An Advanced Course

Faculty of Law
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Kamila Novotná (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Kamila Novotná
Language Centre, Faculty of Law Division – Language Centre
Contact Person: Lenka Pavlíková
Supplier department: Language Centre, Faculty of Law Division – Language Centre
Prerequisites
MV118Z Latin for Lawyers I && ! MV215K Latin For Lawyers II
The students are supposed to have acquired credit assigned to previous course in Latin for Lawyers - an Advanced Course MV118Z.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 4/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
  • Law (programme PrF, PR_)
  • Law (programme PrF, M-PPV)
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to get deeper knowledge of Latin, focusing on the ability of interpreting Latin legal ictions, sayings and texts.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to: - Understand classical Latin texts as well as parts of post- classical texts. - Differentiate semantic shifts in Latin words over the centuries. - Comprehend modern Greco-Latin Indo-Europeanisms through morphematic analysis of Latin and selected Greek words. - Use and actively create specialized terms within an academic environment. - Understand and actively use legal Latin phrases and entire sentences with modal transformations.
Syllabus
  • 1. Theory of translating latin texts to Czech. Outline of main latin sources of law. 2. Outline of hypotactic complex sentences: Adverbial clauses. Translation of legal definitions. 3. Outline of hypotactic complex sentences: Relative and content clauses. Forms of perfect stem. 4. Rhetorical instruments in political and judicial statements. Infinitives. 5. Other rhetorical instruments. Video and analysis. 6. Stem of „supinum“. “Participium perfect“ passive in a construction of “ablative absolute“. 7. Passive system of stem „supinum“. Translation. 8. Construction of accusative und nominative and infinitive. Verbs iubeo and veto. Translation. 9. Case syntax 10. Expressing a will, necessity, and obligation – summary. Translation of middle aged texts. 11. Fractions from Leges XII tabularum. 12. Derivations of phonetics, morphology and lexis in late latin legal texts.
Literature
    required literature
  • ŠEDOVÁ, Marie a Marta SEVEROVÁ. Latina pro právníky. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2008, ISBN 978-80-210-3805-9 a další dotisky.
Teaching methods
An interactive language seminar with home preparation based on the instructions in the Interactive syllabus (IS MUNI).
Assessment methods
Fulfilling the following requirements: attendance and active work in the seminar, including home preparation tasks (50%), passing a final written test (30%) and oral examination (20%).
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
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