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13Jan2014

Monday smile – Abstain, refrain and forbear

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Hope you have a good start to the week…

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6Jan2014

Monday smile – Legal assistant, translator, and ‘softener of laws’

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Fabric softener and towel greenFollowing a French Act of 18 December 1998 on access to law, a new role of “assistant juridique” has been defined, and according to the late legal specialist Jean Carbonnier, such a person is an “adoucisseur du droit” [softener of laws].

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23Dec2013

Monday smiles – Seasonal clauses

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Can’t get enough of this… 🙂

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16Dec2013

Monday smiles – Trolling around

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Just couldn’t resist this one about trolls.

On a more serious note, and in case you missed it, do take a look at solicitor and translator Helen Smith’s guest post Fluffy cats and Trolls out shopping, about the European Unitary Patent.

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9Dec2013

Monday smiles – Multiple choice

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Enjoy your week!

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2Dec2013

Monday smiles – Etymology

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Today, I offer you this cartoon to start off your week. Enjoy!

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Credit: With many thanks and credit to Mark Anderson at Andertoons.

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25Nov2013

Monday smiles – Devil’s advocate

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18Nov2013

Monday smile – Order to chill out

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koalaAnother little gem from the court records of the USA…by District Judge James Robertson.

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11Nov2013

Monday smile – Shades of grey

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And here we are starting another week… Enjoy it!

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4Nov2013

Monday smiles – South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats

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kittensNo, really – that *is* the name of the case!!! This oddity occurs in certain US cases involving the seizure or ownership of property, where the item or animal is the ‘defendant’. Over to Kevin Underhill for more…

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The third WordstoDeeds conference “Legal Translation and Risk” took place on Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 January 2023. It was a really great event!

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    Fantastic French notarial glossary
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