Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

En el caso que incumbe al presente documento

English translation:

in this case

Added to glossary by Rachel Freeman
Jan 13, 2014 16:02
10 yrs ago
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Spanish term

incumbe al presente documento

Spanish to English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters arquitectural report
Hi everyone, this is from a Spanish arquitectural report. The client wants a universal English. Under the section about exposure of the structure to wind it says:

En el caso que *incumbe al presente documento*, los parámetros considerados son los que se explicitan a continuación:

I know incumbir means to be the responsibility of someone. I'm having a hard time getting the wording right for an inanimate object such as a document. Any ideas? Thanks everyone in advance.
Change log

Jan 19, 2014 09:09: Rachel Freeman changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/1116562">Rachel Freeman's</a> old entry - "incumbe al presente documento"" to ""in this case ""

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in this case

The Spanish is very wordy, and you don't need to mention the document at all. You could just say: "In this case, the following parameters were considered."
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neutral AllegroTrans : and if there is another case? (apart from the one pertaining to the document)....
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks Phil, in the end this was the best option since there were no other cases mentioned. "
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In the case of this document

incumbir: concerning, involving
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Spanish term (edited): (el caso que) incumbe al presente documento

(the case) with which this document is concerned

A bit formal, legalese register.

indiankanoon.org/doc/576614/‎ : "...All the same, the subject. the matter with which this Report is concerned is so important from the point of view of social justice and so vital to the vindication of ..."

https://casetext.com/.../syracuse-broadcasting-corporation-v...‎ : "... necessity for such specification in the case with which this report is concerned is so great as to require that it be done no matter what the objection..."

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It seems fairly plain from the source text that the 'case' referred to is not the document itself, but rather that which the document is about.
Peer comment(s):

agree Andy Watkinson
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agree Charles Davis
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agree Sonja Scherling
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agree AllegroTrans
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pertaining to the document herewith

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in terms of this document

incumbir means "to be incumbent, to be of concern, to pertain." Simon & Schuster's International Dictionary.
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