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Aktenverzeichnis

English translation: list of documents

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German term or phrase:Aktenverzeichnis
English translation:list of documents
Entered by: philgoddard

19:08 Jun 16, 2010
German to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Law (general)
German term or phrase: Aktenverzeichnis
Heading of a list of documents at the end of a legal case.

Could it simply be "Index of documents" or something like that or is there an official translation?
Trevor Pettit
Local time: 02:28
list of documents
Explanation:
Or document list, or index. A literal translation is fine.
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philgoddard
United States
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Summary of answers provided
4 +6list of documents
philgoddard
5 +2file index
Anne-Mette
4case file (documents)
Rosa Paredes


  

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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
list of documents


Explanation:
Or document list, or index. A literal translation is fine.

philgoddard
United States
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agree  Johanna Timm, PhD: or "file index" http://shortify.com/10419
8 mins
  -> Yes, that's another possibility.
agree  Ingeborg Gowans (X)
28 mins
  -> Thanks.
agree  Wendy Streitparth
35 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  milinad
9 hrs
agree  Reinhold Wehrmann
11 hrs
agree  Rolf Keiser
12 hrs
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
file index


Explanation:
s. Der grosse Eichborn

Anne-Mette
Local time: 03:28
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agree  Johanna Timm, PhD: wie oben schon als Alternative bei Phil angegeben/ no worries :-)
30 mins
  -> Sorry, Johanna, don't think that I had seen your comment when I opened the window to answer. Certainly didn't intend to copy!
agree  milinad
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
case file (documents)


Explanation:
Although it is an index, I'd leave it out. A county will keep an index, but I believe your document relates to just one case in particular.
The predominant type of record the Federal courts create and maintain is a case file, which contains a docket sheet and all documents filed in a case. ...
www.uscourts.gov/CourtRecords.aspx - Cached
Source of document: For trial documents, the case files of a particular trial; ... Trial documents, or case file documents, are briefs, transcripts of oral ...
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/php/docs_swi.php?DI=1... -
http://home.arcor.de/cuba-libertad/downloads/paperaktenplanf...


Rosa Paredes
Canada
Local time: 21:28
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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