Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
act of the shareholders
French translation:
l'acte des actionnaires
Added to glossary by
Eric KUATE FOTSO
Apr 24, 2019 07:41
5 yrs ago
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English term
act of the shareholders
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Statuts de société
Bonjour à tous,
dans le contexte ci-dessous, comment traduisez-vous act:
Except as otherwise required by applicable law, the vote of a majority of the shareholders present in person or by proxy at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the shareholders.
Merci à tous
Anne
dans le contexte ci-dessous, comment traduisez-vous act:
Except as otherwise required by applicable law, the vote of a majority of the shareholders present in person or by proxy at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the shareholders.
Merci à tous
Anne
Proposed translations
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4 | l'acte des actionnaires | Eric KUATE FOTSO |
4 -2 | [le vote ....] sera considéré comme l'acte / la décision des actionnaires | Daryo |
Change log
May 3, 2019 09:26: Eric KUATE FOTSO Created KOG entry
Proposed translations
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l'acte des actionnaires
https://www.proz.com/kudoz/english-to-french/other/464821-sh...
... doit être effectué par les actionnaires
... doit être effectué par les actionnaires
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English term (edited):
[the vote ...] shall be the act of the shareholders.
[le vote ....] sera considéré comme l'acte / la décision des actionnaires
[the vote of a majority of the shareholders present in person or by proxy at a meeting at which a quorum is present]
shall be the act of the shareholders.
Here "act" is used here as a synonym for "decision" - i.e. the result of a vote conducted according to the rules will be "the decision" of the shareholders as a group.
You can safely replace "l'acte" by "la décision", or leave "l'acte".
"la décision" is more straightforward but it should make no difference for the intended audience.
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Note added at 5 hrs (2019-04-24 13:21:38 GMT)
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an act / un acte both in EN and FR can mean two completely different things:
- some doing / action as in "act of commission"
OR
- a written document spelling out some decision, or some laws / regulations as in "Acts of Parliament"
As for the intended meaning in this sentence, you don't need more than the basics of Company law to see which meaning can make any sense:
"the result of a vote ..." is what is the decision of all shareholders as a group THAT is just plain vanilla most usual decision making in a Company having shareholders;
OTOH
the idea that "the vote by shareholders" is what is "teh act" in the sense of "the action they must perform" holds no water.
"le vote ... doit être effectué par les actionnaires" would be just a pointless tautology, and here become total nonsense when combined with "Except as otherwise required by applicable law" as there are no laws whatsoever anywhere that would allow anyone else but the shareholders to vote when a Company needs to take a decision.
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Note added at 2 days 5 mins (2019-04-26 07:46:55 GMT)
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... and here becomes total nonsense ...
Peer comment(s):
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Eric KUATE FOTSO
: "l'acte / la décision des actionnaires" = "l'acte des actionnaires"
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there is no point giving ANY answer with a completely wrong explanation - even if it happens to be the right one (gives the impression of just being a lucky guess) it only creates confusion // ever heard of "half-truths being worst than outright lies" ?
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disagree |
GILLES MEUNIER
: vous mettez disagree pour l'acte des actionnaires et vous l'utilisez dans votre réponse, ça me laisse perplexe !
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When your method is to just lift a term from some MT without blinking, why would you need giving ANY explanations - or, what a horror and annoyance, expecting an explanation that makes sense for the specific context of the ST? Waste of time, surely?
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