As cores no inglês jurídico: Black - Parte 1

Você sabia que a tradução de black pode ser roxo?

Depois de blue, red e white, vejamos hoje quais as expressões empregadas na linguagem jurídica em inglês que contêm black¹.

1. black box - "To some extent, the Austinian common-law judge was a "black box" already containing all the prior law and into which the new facts were put. 38 Almost magically, or, at least we might say, mindlessly, out came the proper legal answer to the instant dispute".

Tradução: caixa preta, mistério

2. black codes - "The specific problem facing policymakers was to negate the black codes passed by the former Confederate states in an attempt to settle the question of the freed people's status and rights".

Tradução: leis americanas de discriminação racial estaduais e municipais aprovadas após a guerra civil

3. black deed - "The black deeds are also attributable to nations".

Tradução: ato ilícito

4. black eye - "Former President George Bush broke his silence in January on Clinton's first term in office saying the U.S. presence in Somalia evolved from a humanitarian mission to a stumbling peacemaking effort that gave the United States a black eye all over the world".

Tradução: macular a reputação, perder o respeito

5. black eye - "She came to work with a black eye".

Tradução: olho roxo

6. black gold - "Thanks to black gold, rapid affluence would be attained without resorting to the forced savings".

Tradução: ouro negro, petróleo

7. black letter law - "The term "black-letter law" is also used commonly in the American legal system to mean well-established case law²".

Tradução: jurisprudência pacífica

8. black letter laws - "Moynihan is not satisfied with the Reagan administration's compliance with the black letter laws pertaining to executive-legislative relations".

Tradução: princípios gerais [de direito]

9. black letter rules - "Assume that what we are after is some more-or-less general way of understanding what happens in the law that has more generality than the flat statement of black letter rules. 3 It is clear that law and economics offers some people a way of gaining that understanding".

Tradução: normas técnicas

10. black list - "Moreover, the Gulf states are said to maintain a so-called black list of Arab journalists who criticize their monarchies".

Tradução: lista negra

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¹Todos os exemplos foram retirados do COCA (clique aqui), salvo quando expressamente mencionada outra fonte.

²Fonte: (clique aqui)

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