English translation of "les présentes qualités" - "Without prejudice"

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192 months ago

Geea (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	French > English
Subject:	Law / Certificates
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	les présentes qualités
Context:	Sans que les présentes qualités puissent nuire ou préjudicier aux droits et
Keywords:	... intérêts respectifs des parties mais au contraire sous les plus expresses réserves de fait et de droits; /// I'm actually having a bit of trouble with this whole last paragraph of the first page of a divorce decision from a Cameroon court....there is a similar question on ProZ.com from March 2007 but I'm not too sure about that answer - does qualités really refer to "damages" here? And "being prejudicial to"? Wouldn't that just be something like "adversely affect"? TIA.

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192 months ago

Medilingua Hungarica wrote:

Without present qualities will damage or (at least) adversely affect the rights...

My comment:

I mean you have well understood the text. But what are these "qualities"?

My references:

Own logics.

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192 months ago

Jennifer White wrote:

Makes no sense in English

192 months ago

Claude Le Frapper wrote:

Without prejudice

My comment:

The entire sentence is an old formula used in civil proceeding that really means very little, very much equivalent to our "Without prejudice" in similar cases. It only means that if the judgment is infirmed in any way, any party can start over a new case.

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