I’ve just finished the self-edited, beta version of an ebook on translating contracts into English. The book provides a systematic approach for translating contracts...
Most of the time, daños means “damage”, in singular. What, then, is “damages” in Spanish? Usually something like indemnizaciones por daños y perjuicios, literally,...
Translating a document requires knowing what it looks like in the target language, especially in a format-heavy genre like contracts. And knowing what the...
Anyone who’s looked up legal terms on ProZ term search in the Spanish-to-English combination will probably be familiar with Rebecca Jowers. You’re likely to...
Last weekend we had the Mediterranean Editors and Translators annual conference (METM15), this time in Coimbra, Portugal. Yet again, it was an action-packed and...
This straight-to-the-point paper by Daniel Kaplan has some useful tips for translating contracts. 1. False friends Kaplan points out a couple of false friends...
Distinguishing between formulaic language and contract information is, I believe, the key to translating contracts and other formal legal documents. The only thing that...
I think translations should be usable, useful and understandable. Usable basically means fit for purpose. The right type of translation for a given situation...
In Basic Legal Drafting, Anne Rutledge makes a useful distinction between promissory and descriptive language: A promissory statement is one that “articulates a promise”...
Basic Legal Drafting by Anne Rutledge covers three areas of legal drafting: litigation documents, contracts and legislative documents. I went straight for what interests...
According to Tiffany Kemp in her book Essential Contract Drafting Skills (spoken about here), we shouldn’t use “undertakes to” because it’s legalese with no...
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