Swedish inheritance video
Legal terms across borders
Using bouppteckning as an example, Simon Dicksved explains why a translation can be useful without making two legal processes equivalent.
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How I handle language differences a-and how that affect, um, how a collaboration is, um, created or, um, evolved.
It is actually that, uh, I try to use the English words, and in some legal terms, they are so specific related to a country or, or a legal system that those legal terms shouldn't be altered.
For instance, in Sweden, we have the bouppteckning, which is a, a probate, if you would like translate it.
But, but the, but the bouppteckning is, uh, it's not comparable in full sense to, to an American or UK probate, uh, because you have different steps where you actually d- um, depart from what, what the, the bouppteckning in Sweden e-entails and what, what the legal frame of that specific, um, document or deed, uh, is.
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