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Users’ note
This glossary has been prepared by a business lawyer to help legal professionals
who are qualified in the English, French or Spanish languages to understand
contracts and other legal documents in Italian; for this reason, Italian terms have
been translated according to legal criteria rather than linguistic or etymological
criteria
Accordingly, the translation of each Italian term reflects the closest legal concept
(in English, French or Spanish) rather than the closest translation from a
linguistic standpoint.
EXAMPLE eccessiva onerosità sopravvenuta
fr imprévision (so, NOT « excessive onerosité survenue » or st. similar)
Where the legal concept does not exist in one or more of the three legal systems,
the glossary records the term that most closely reflects the Italian legal concept
and highlights the lack of full affinity between the term and the Italian legal
concept by adding the symbol “ * ”.
EX. formula esecutiva
en writ of execution*
Finally, where there is no close legal concept in one or more of the three legal
systems (this being a remote possibility) but a consolidated translation exists in
legal usage, this translation is recorded (and written in Italics).
EX. presupposizione
fr présupposition
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