Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

visa de référence

English translation:

reference clause

Added to glossary by Allison Neill-Rabaux
Jun 24, 2019 06:16
4 yrs ago
French term

visa de référence

French to English Law/Patents Law: Contract(s)
An organisation is considering a change to its internal rules, and wants to include a 'visa de reference' to its founding agreement, which stipulates that....

I know in a legal context 'visa' can be translated as 'citation', 'endorsement' or even 'stamp', but my feeling is that 'visa de référence' in my context could just be translated as reference, i.e. we want to include a reference to our founding agreement, which stipulates that...

Here's the text in French (anonymised):

Nous proposons d'inclure un visa de référence à l’accord du [DATE] qui prévoit que...
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 reference clause

Discussion

Julie Barber Jun 24, 2019:
A visa can also be a signature. Although would some form of benchmark suit your case? https://www.linguee.com/english-french/search?source=auto&qu... is there any additional context to give more clues for visa?

Proposed translations

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reference clause

This means a short passage of text indicating how the relevant agreement has a bearing on the present document.
Note from asker:
Perfect Hugh - exactly what I needed!
Peer comment(s):

agree AllegroTrans
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