schadlos halten - What is the English translation? English translators help legal English translators with the translation of schadlos halten

Conges terminology question

252 months ago

Birgitt Schürmann (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Law / Certificates
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	schadlos halten
Context:	lease contract Der Vermieter h
Keywords:	legal term in a lease contract

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252 months ago

wrote:

hold blameless

My comment:

in the sentence as used:
"shall be held blameless"

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252 months ago

wrote:

hold harmless

My comment:

the lessor holds himself harmless in respect to

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252 months ago

wrote:

TO HOLD HARMLESS AGAINSTG....

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252 months ago

wrote:

the lessor shall not be liable

My comment:

or: shall not be responsible for
(the context of the article of the above lease is not made quite clear by the quotation, so I don't see indemnity or holding harmless as applicable)

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252 months ago

wrote:

the lessor shall not be liable

My comment:

or: shall not be responsible for
(the context of the article of the above lease is not made quite clear by the quotation, so I don't see indemnity or holding harmless as applicable)

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252 months ago

wrote:

the lessor shall be held harmless

My comment:

I would recommend this slightly more generic version rather than the reflexive in the original German

My references:

see Black's Law Dictionary for "hold harmles agreement"

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252 months ago

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