il ne pourra pas se vouloir de...
he may not invoke (or claim)

This is the menaing of the verb "se prevaloir"

I agree with the answer above mine.
se prévaloir (de)=to take advantage (of)
"condition" I would prob. translate with
"requirements" instead of "condition."
One cannot "avail" a requirement, one
can "avail" an opportunity (profiter de)
etc.

Both expressions are proper translations of "se prévaloir" (note they are not translations of "prévaloir" alone, which would be "to prevail" and is an intransitive verb).

I personally prefer the first expression.

Your verb here is not 'prévaloir' but 'se prévaloir de qqchs' which means to take advantage from, to benefit from. In GB legal English, 'rely upon' would be used here. The question is whether or not Mr Carré can rely upon the "condition suspensive" (condition precedent) or not. (By the way, Mr Carré, thus "informé" without the extra "e", but that was probably a typo).

Thus : "...failing which, he shall not be able to rely upon the condition precedent on having failed to obtain the loan or loans".

Extra bits for your information :

CONDITION SUSPENSIVE : modalité d'un acte juridique faisant dépendre l'existence d'un "événement futur dont la réalisation est incertaine. [...] Si la condition est suspensive, le droit ne nait, rétroactivement, que si l'événement se produit.

CONDITION PRECEDENT : a major term of a contract, frequently described as a term which goes to the root or which is the essence of the contract. A provision that does not form part of a contractual obligation but operates either to suspend the contract until a specific event has happened (a condition precedent) or to bring it to an end in certain specified circumstances (condition subsequent).

Hope this helps you get on.

Nikki

Translating legal English is a very tricky business indeed. Finding the right term, where one exists, is essential. The implications of making the wrong choice are potentially disastrous - which goes for any trnaslation, of course!

I cannot recommend too strongly that you use 'condition precedent' (if the context is English). If it is Irish (?) or US, then the term may well be different. In English law there is no such thing as a 'suspensive condition'.

I am afraid that in spite of the large number of "avail oneself of sthg" for "se prévaloir de", it is not used in legal English. We do however talk of reliance upon, taking advantage of a condition or a term.

I am sure about this!