No guarantees

21:41 Aug 15, 2010
English to Latin translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Real Estate / property management
English term or phrase: No guarantees
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5Sine vadimonio
Michael McCann
3 +1гарантия не предоставляется
Olga D.
4nullae satisdationes
Joseph Brazauskas


  

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no guarantees
гарантия не предоставляется


Explanation:
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Olga D.
Russian Federation
Local time: 00:24
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian

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no guarantees
Sine vadimonio


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Michael McCann
Ireland
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no guarantees
nullae satisdationes


Explanation:
This technical term refers to guarantees made in legally binding contracts, chiefly guarantees regarding the repayment of a debt to a creditor (cf. Digest, 46.3.49) and the provision of bail or security (cf. Cicero, ad Atticum, 5.1.2, Gaius, Institutes, 1.200, Digest, 2.8.1, 4.6.28, 46.5.1, 50.16.61).

'Vadimonium' too is a legal technical term, meaning a pledge to appear before a court on a set day that has been secured by bail, i.e., 'recognisance', as we would say in America. Gaius (op. cit. 4.184) defines its purpose thus:

Cum autem in ius vocatus fuerit adversarius, ni eo die finitum fuerit negotium, vadimonium ei faciendum est, id est, ut promittat, se certo die sisti.

The Latin for the common and lay sense of 'guarantee', i.e., as an informal promise or assurance of any kind, is 'promissum' and the Latin for 'no guarantees' in this sense would be 'nulla promissa'. But here the context is clearly legal.

Joseph Brazauskas
United States
Local time: 17:24
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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