French term
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Native in: Spanish (Variant: Standard-Spain)
Works in: English to Spanish, French to Spanish, Spanish to English
demeuré sans effet pendant la présente clause
I'm translating part of a lease agreement and there's a confusing expression I can't seem to be able to find an equivalent translation for. Please find the context below:
"...déclaration par ledit Preneur de son intention d’user du bénéfice de la présente clause et
demeuré sans effet pendant la présente clause."
The bit that troubles me is "demeuré sans effet pendant la présent clause". I understand that "demeuré sans effet" means that it remains ineffective or unimplemented, but what does "pendant la présente clause" mean?
Any help would be very much appreciated!
Thank you in advance.
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Cabbage & King Technical Translation
Native in: French (Variants: Standard-France, Canadian) 
Works in: English to French, French to English, Spanish to French, and 3 more.
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: but how does this fit into what appears to be flawed text? Could you suggest a translation for the whole paragraph which would actually make sense?
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Discussion
I think I coincide with you - there is a gender agreement error and "demeuré(e)" refers to "mise en demeure"
"Pendant la présente clause" was one of my main doubts since, like ph-b suggests, the logical thing to expect after "pendant" was a period of time.
What do you think of: "...remains ineffective during the validity period of this clause."?
The rest doesn't make sense: As ph-b correctly says one would expect "pendant ... a period ../ 1 momth, 2 months etc.)
Perhaps "pendant la validité de la présente clause"??
<p>I can see Nikki’s point about the masc sing but I can't help thinking something isn't quite right in your sentence.<p> If you look at the following example : le présent bail sera (…) résilié un mois après (…) un simple commandement de payer signifié à (…), contenant déclaration par le Bailleur de son intention de (…) et demeuré sans effet pendant ce délai, the link between commandement and demeuré is obvious but that's not the case between bénéfice and demeuré in your text: either the syntax is flawed (e.g. user du bénéfice de la présente clause, lequel/ledit bénéfice est demeuré sans effet pendant la présente clause) or demeuré refers to déclaration and should be in the feminine.
<p>Does that make sense?
<p>While on the subject, pendant la présente clause sounds odd to me. I'd have expected something like pendant la durée de la présente clause, not to mention two occurrences of présente clause so close to each other. Not very good French... Do you get the impression that the text is otherwise well written?
Thank you Nikki, that last paragraph of yours makes sense!
I'll give you more context, though. Maybe it'll help:
« une résiliation de plein droit et sans aucune formalité judiciaire un mois
après une simple mise en demeure d’exécuter contenant déclaration par
ledit Preneur de son intention d’user du bénéfice de la présente clause et
demeuré sans effet pendant la présente clause. »
This bit refers to the termination of the agreement itself.
Can you help with more info? It might help to add the start of the sentence
Otherwise, it is about the "benefit of this clause" having "remained without effect" (not having been made use of) throughout the period of validity of the clause in question. That's a rough meaning, but it does not make that much sense and is obviously not phrased correctly. We need more context! ;-)