LEGAL TRANSLATION 1 RESEARCH WORK 1

Provide brief definitions for the following terms related to vital records. Suggest your translation. Account for your choices.

*City Clerk: : a public officer charged with recording the official proceedings and vital statistics of a city. (Merrian-Webster) Traduccin: Secretara del juzgado local (proz.com) *Registrar or Registrer: an officer authorized by law to keep a record called a register or registry. Traducciones: Juez de Paz (Wordreference)?? 2) Secretario judicial (Var) 3) Funcionario de registro (Mazzucco) *Superintendent Registrar: An officer who superintends the registers of births, deaths, and marriages. There is one in every poor-law union in England and Wales. (thelawdictionary.org) Traduccin: Jefe del registro Civil (proz.com) * Registrar General: ? (meaning) Traduccin: Registro General (proz.com) *Assistant Registrar: 1)

*Elected domicile:?? meaning Traducciones: 1) domicilio de eleccin/convenido (Var) 2) Domicilio legal (Mazzucco)

*Domicile of/by choice: domicile of choice

* Corporate domicile:

*District:

*Department:

*Borough:

*Partida: *Acta: *Certificado * Asiento. m. 1. seat , chair; 2. seat of court, banc, bank; 3. peace treaty 4. official recording or registration (in public registry or recording office) ; 5. (book or ledger) entry; 6. supplies contract (for military troop); prudence, good judgement.

Oficial Pblico. m. public officer; 2. notary public, special notary public. See Escribano.

Escribano. m. 1. special notary; 2. judges clerk, judicial assistant; 3. also see Notario. (The Escribano is an officer of the court (in the sense that an attorney is) who retypes and certifies certain legal documents (e.g.real estate contracts, expert witnesses testimony) and witnesses documents. He/she works under license of the government and usually must have completed extensive studies after having become an attorney. An Escribanos certification may verify having witnessed the signature of the signatory or, additionally, may verify the truth of the facts included in the document being signed.

The Escribano who works as a judicial assistant certifies court documents among others and otherwise assists in court related matters.)

Notario. m. notary, notary public, public notary, public officer whose work is to administer oaths and witness out-of-court documents. (In some civil law countries Notario is equivalent to Escribano. A Notario is usually an attorney with further education and qualifications).

*Domicilio real. m. principal place of a persons residence (legally recognized as that persons domicile), actual residence (of persons).

* Domicilio legal. m. legal address or residence; necessary domicile, legal domicile, domicile set by law.

* Domicilio conyugal. m. 1. matrimonial domicile; unitary domicile (obs); 2. place chosen by husband to be matrimonial domicile, even if the couple is separated.

* Registro Civil. m. registry of vital statistics, civil registry, registry in which births, deaths, marriages, adoptions, divorces, legitimizations of children, naturalizations, etc. are registered.

Municipalidad. f. 1. town or city hall; 2. town or city council; 3 municipality; 4. town, city; 5 township, borough; 6. county; 7. municipal government. Circunscripcin. f. 1. district (electoral, administrative, etc.), ward, precinct; 2. limitation, circumscription. Circunscripcin electoral. f. precinct, voting or electoral district. Circunscripcin judicial. f. judicial district