Plain English Exercises 8-9

Exercise 8

1. The stock exchange suspended trading in the defendant corporation's stock at 10:17 the next morning.
2. Neither the depositor nor anyone else notified the bank that the ATM card had been stolen.
3. You must fill in the Dept. of Agriculture Form 9-2018 and bring it in to any USDA branch office before you can plant genetically modified sugar beet seed in an open field.
4. After 180 days, either party can terminate this agreement.
   
5. The officer found two kilograms of an unidentified white powder in the spare tire well of Defendant's Volvo sedan.
6. When you donate appreciated assets, you can deduct their fair market value at the time of the gift, thus avoiding the capital gains tax.

Exercise 9

1. In a tort case, an actor is not liable for harm that is different from the harms whose risks made the actors conduct tortious. An actor is also not liable for harm when the tortious aspect of the actor's conduct did not increase the risk of harm. However, an actor is liable when his tortious conduct causes an unusual amount or type of damage to a person due to the person's preexisting physical or mental condition.
2. In sentencing, the purpose of the law ought to be to punish within a range of severity sufficient to the gravity of the offense and the blameworthiness of the offenders. Where there is a realistic prospect of success, the law should try to serve the goals of offender rehabilitation, general deterrence, incapacitation of dangerous offenders, and restoration of crime victims and communities. However, the law should not impose sentences more severe than necessary to achieve these goals.
3. For class-gift purposes, a child produced by in vitro fertilization is treated as the child of the husband and wife, regardless of whether the child was genetically formed by both of the spouses or one of the spouses and a third party.