Vocabulary related to "Leaseholds" and "Tenancy Agreements" English-Spanish

Glossary ENG - SPA - Leasehold:
Note: This Glossary is NOT intended to be an authoritative reference document that determines once and for all the only correct way to translate an English word or phrase.

Developer: promotor o empresa promotora

Demise premises: propiedad arrendada o Inmueble arrendado
Covenants (The lessee's covenants): las obligaciones del arrendatario
Easement: Servidumbres
Freehold Title Registered: Título de la Propiedad en dominio absoluto
Hereinafter called: En lo sucesivo denominado
Inland Revenue: Agencia Tributaria o Hacienda Pública
Land: Parcela, o Inmueble o Terreno (depende del contexto)
Land Law: Derecho del suelo

Land Registry: Registro de la Propiedad

Leasehold: Arrendamiento

Lessee: Arrendatario Plot: Finca
Premium: Es una especie de pago inicial por el traspaso. Se puede traducir como: pago inicial por traspaso o pago inicial. Es como una “Entrada”
Property: Propiedad o Inmueble
Purchaser: Comprador
The Manager: Sociedad gestora o El Administrador
The rent: la renta
The term: Duración del contrato
Vendor: Vendedor

VOCABULARY Tenancy Agreemeent (Contrato de Arrendamiento):

Agreement: Contrato (o acuerdo)

Court Order: Orden judicial

Dwelling: Vivienda

Housing Act: La Ley de la Vivienda

Landlord: Propietario/ Arrendador

Leaseholder: Arrendatario

Fixtures and fittings: instalaciones fijas y bienes accesorios (Fixtures se refiere a las instalaciones fijas, mientras que los fittings, son los enseres, muebles, lámparas, cortinas, etc.).

Notice to Quit: Notificación de desahucio

Responsabilities: Obligaciones

Rights: Los derechos

Terms of the tenancy: las condiciones de la tenencia (o del contrato)

Tenant: Arrendatario

Tenure: Tenencia

Unfurnished: sin amueblar

- NOW THIS DEED WITNESSETH as follows: Por la presente escritura, se hace constar…

- Yardas y Pulgadas deberán convertirse a metros y centímetos.

Translation of wills and testaments into Spanish

Useful vocabulary when you are translating a will from English into Spanish(Vocabulario útil para traducir un testamento del inglés al español)

Last will and testament: Última voluntad y testamento de X

Glosario (en orden alfabético)

Absolute decree: sentencia de divorcio definitiva

Beneficiary: Beneficiarios
Benefactor: Benefactor. El Testador o el Fideicomitente.
Codicil: Codicilo testamentario (una nota aparte del testamento)
Deceased: El fallecido, el defunto (o el finado – más formal)
Decree Nisi: Sentencia provisional
Dependants: Las personas a su cargo
Estate: Normalmente se refiere al patrimonio; pero hablando de testamentos, existen otras palabras más específicas: la masa heridataria, el caudal hereditario.
Executor: Albacea (un albacea tiene funciones diferentes de un executor en el Reino Unido)

Inherit: Heredar
Inheritance: Herencia

Intestate: Intestado, sin testar, sin haber hecho testamento
Living wills: Testamento vital

Null and void: completamente inválido

Of sound mind: en pleno uso de sus facultades mentales

Of age: mayor de edad
Power of attorney: Poder (de representación)
Probate: Validación de un testamento. Certificadode validez
Regarding probate matters: asuntos testamentarios 
Trust: Fideicomiso
Trustee: Fidiuciario (Antiguamente se le conocía como "Fideicomisario", pero es erróneo)

Definición de algunos de estos términos:

ALBACEA  (Executor)– Persona o compañía nombrada en un testamento para llevar a cabo las instrucciones y pedidos. El albacea es supervisado generalmente por el tribunal

testamentario.

FIDUCIARIO (Trustee)– Una persona que actúa para el beneficio de otra, como fideicomisario o guardián.

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SUCESIÓN INTESTADA (INTESTATE SUCCESSION) El proceso por el cual la propiedad de una persona que ha muerto sin testamento pasa a otros de acuerdo con la ley del estado.

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Translation of Employment Contracts ENGLISH-SPANISH

Notes on the translation of Employment Contracts from English into Spanish:

(please do not take these translations as the ONLY translation possible. In some cases, this is just my version of it, according to the texts I have been working with, but it might not be suitable in another context).

- Employment Contract: Contrato de Trabajo

- Breach of contract: Incumplimiento de contrato

- By contract: por contrato

- Employer: El Empleador (it is used more often now in Spanish employment contracts. It could also be translated as "La Empresa").

- Continous Employment: Antigüedad laboral. It can also be translated as "empleo ininterrumpido".
  The concept of continuous employment is of fundamental importance in the UK employment law because:-
* an employee must complete a minimum period of "continuous employment" to be eligible for certain rights; and
* length of continuous employment is often an important factor in assessing any compensation which may be due to him (e.g. on unfair dismissal or redundancy )

- Registered office: domicilio social

- Place of work: Lugar de trabajo
- Termination of the contract: Extinción del contrato

- Notice period: plazo/período de preaviso

- Redundancy payment: indemnización por despido

- Serious or gross misconduct: Faltas graves o muy graves
In Spanish, there is a differentiation between "faltas leves, graves o muy graves". See link below for a better explanation:
http://www.madrid.org/cs/Satellite?blobcol=paginapdf&blobheader=application%2Fpdf&blobkey=id&blobtable=CM_Pagina_BOCM&blobwhere=1142342206376&ssbinary=true

- Payment in lieu of: pago sustitutivo
The loan “payment in lieu “, refers to a payment that is given in place of an entitlement (Source: Qfinance)
It is not always possible to find a loan word with the same meaning or associations and be able to keep the stylistic effect in the TT. In this case, I tried to find an expression in the TT which maintains the propositional meaning of the loan, even if the effect and style are lost in the translation process.

- Deductions: Retenciones

- Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures: Procedimiento disciplinario y de resolución de conflictos

- Working Time Regulations: Reglamento sobre Horas de Trabajo (leave the name of the legislation in English too, in case the reader wants to access this reference).

- Stakeholder pensions: "plan de pensiones de partícipe" (stakeholder pensions).

Stakeholder pensions, available in the UK from April 2001, aim to provide a low-cost, transparent and flexible way for people on low incomes to make additional provisions for their retirement. This concept is specific to UK law. Baker describes this type of problem as “culture-specific” problem of non- equivalence (Baker, 18). The translator needs to find a descriptive equivalent which will explain the concept in the TL. The strategy I decided to use, in this case, is to keep the name in English, in brackets, after using a descriptive equivalent “plan de pensiones de partícipe” which helps the target reader understand the concept.

If you need to find parallel texts in Spanish, I would suggest you have a look at employment contracts used by the Spanish “Servicio Público de Empleo Estatal (SEPE)”, an autonomous body of the Spanish Government whose main function is the management of employment, public registry of contracts, etc.

Suggested reading for legal translators

Alcaraz, E. & B. Hughes, (2002)  Legal Translation Explained  Manchester: St Jerome Baker, M (1992, rpt. 1999) In Other Words.  London and New York: Routledge. 
Bhatia, V.K. (1993) Analysing Genre, Language Use in Professional Settings London: Longman
Cao, D. ( 2007) Translating Law Clevedon: Multilingual Matters Ltd
Munday, J (2008) Introducing Translation Studies. Theories and Applications (2nd edn). London and New York: Routledge.
Owens, K. (2001) Law for Non Law Students London: Cavendish
Samuelsson-Brown, G (2004) A Practical Guide for Translators (4th edn). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.

BOOKS RELATING TO THE LAW OF CONTRACTS:

English
Beatson, J (2002) Anson’s Law of Contract Oxford: OUP
Lucas, N (2001)  Law of Contract  London: Blackstone
Treitel, G H (2004) An Outline of the Law of Contract Oxford: OUP

Spanish
Serrano Alonso, E. (2009) Manual de Derecho de Obligaciones y Contratos.Tomo II Vol.2  Edisofer
Gete-Alonso y Calera, M. (2008) Estudios sobre el contrato. Atelier
Rogel Vide, C. (2008) Estudios de Derecho Civil. Obligaciones y contrato. Editorial Reus

BOOKS ON PROPERTY LAW:

 

 

English

Garner, S. & A. Frith (2008) A Practical Approach to Landlord and Tenant  Oxford: OUP

Murphy, T., S. Roberts and T. Flessas (2004) Understanding Property Law  London: Sweet nd Maxwell

Oakley, A.J. (2002) Magarry’s Manual of the Law of Real Property  London: Sweet and Maxwell

Spanish

Pena López, J. (2009) Concepto del derecho real. Torculo Edicións

Pérez, E. (2009) Régimen Jurídico Estatal y Autonómico de la Propiedad Inmobiliaria,  2 tomos. Etorial Bosch. Editorial Tecnos.

Cuevillas Matozzi, I. (2009) Instituciones de Derecho Civil Patrimonial

Sanmartín Escriche, Fernando (2009) Esquema de sucesiones y herencias. Esquemas tomo XXIV. Editorial: Tirant lo Blanch.

Sánchez Román, F. (2008 ) Estudios de derecho civil, VI . 3 vols. Derecho de sucesión. Analecta Editorial


                                 BOOKS ON LITIGATION

English

Hannibal, M & Mountford, L (2011) Criminal Litigation Handbook (2011-12) Oxford: OUP

Sime, S & French, D. (eds) (2012) Blackstone’s Civil Practice, Oxford OUP

Solan, L.M. (1993) The Language Of Judges, Chicago: University of Chicago

Spanish

Aragoneses Martínez, S. (2008) Lecciones de Derecho Procesal Civil. Editorial Universitaria Ramón Areces.

Robles Garzón, J. (2008) Conceptos básicos de Derecho Procesal Civil. Editorial Tecnos.

Alvarez, I. (2008) El juicio civil. Editorial Gomylex.

López Barja de Quiroga, J. (2009) Tratado de Derecho Procesal Penal. Aranzadi.

Moreno Catena, V y Cortés Domínguez, V. (2008) Derecho Procesal Penal. Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia.

 

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A legal translator in Scotland!

The first question I get asked when meeting new people in Scotland is: what is a girl from Gran Canaria doing in Scotland??? Well, the answer is easy: Legal Translation!
I am one out of THREE legal translators registered with the Spanish Consulate in Edinburgh.

This means I get quite a lot of work and it means I've had to learn fast about how to deal with clients, how to say "no" when I have too much work, how to organize myself,...all in all, how to become an efficient legal translator in Scotland!

Mostly I am asked to translate from Spanish into English, which is more of a challenge for me, but I enjoy it even more!!! I always make sure I get a proofreader to read my work after I have finished the translation to make sure it is up to standards! 

I translate birth, marriage and death certificates more than anything else, but I do get a few title deeds every couple of months, and a few wills and testaments. I also deal with lots of university students who need their academic certificates and transcripts of notes translated, either from Spanish universities to  be able to work/study in the UK, or from British students who are planning to leave and work/study abroad. 

I will be talking more about my experience in Scotland in later posts.

Right now, I am dealing with the translation of a Title Deed from Spanish into English,...always a challenge!!! But who doesn't love a challenge?

Can you spot the differences between these pictures?

I can see why people ask me: what are you doing in Scotland?
This pictures was taken in DECEMBER!