text: UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA LANGUAGES SERVICE Terminology and Technical Documentation Section TERM/PROV/40 April 1990 ENGLISH-FRENCH-SPANISH LAW TERMINOLOGY in English, French and Spanish Volume I A-H iii - "When terms are incorrect, statements do not accord with facts. When statements do not accord with facts, affairs go wrong. When affairs go wrong, ritual and music wither. When ritual and music wither, justice fails. When justice fails, the people are bound hand and foot." Confucius "Mon but était simplement de diminuer cette masse de contradictions et d'abus qui finissent par faire de la procédure un maquis où les honnêtes gens n'osent s'aventurer et où prospèrent les bandits." Marguerite Yourcenar, Mémoiree d'Hadrien "... puesto que todos los sistemas de Derecho positivo presentan discrepancias más o menos relevantes entre la formulación lingüística de las normas y el uso que de ellas se hace en concreto." Mario G. Losano, Los Grandes gjstenias JurídicQjS! - iv - INTRODUCTION The present trilingioal glossary has been compiled from card indexes and vocabularies kept over a period of nearly 20 years by a free-lance English reviser and lawyer as a result of his work in the United Nations Office at Geneva. Although the glossary cannot claim to be systematic, the legislation and legal textbooks of a number of countries speaking English, French or Spanish were consulted during its preparation, and this made it possible for several families of legal terms to be added to it. The glossary includes all the Spanish legal and administrative terms, relating mainly to criminal procedure, which appeared in the Geneva human rights glossary of May 1981 (UNOG document TERM/32). In many cases the entries for these terms have been expanded and, it is hoped, improved. The 1981 glossary should now be regarded as obsolete as far as its legal content is concerned. 
analysis: This text appears to be related to law and legal terminology, as it mentions legal procedures, legislation, and legal textbooks. The text also mentions the United Nations Office at Geneva, which suggests a connection to international law and human rights. The quotes from Confucius, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Mario G. Losano add a philosophical and intellectual tone to the text, but do not necessarily relate to any specific category outside of law.