Hi,

at the risk of being wrong - given the fact that it's a legal doc - I'll tell you what "pana" means in South America: we talk of a "pana" when your car breaks down: quedarse en pana; estar en pana; tener una pana.

More context would help. What is the paper about?

Regards,

Maria-Jose

A few contexts/terms for you, from Termium; take your pick!

English:Air Transport
failure s
1980-04-18

English:Mechanical Components
Equipment (Oil and Natural Gas Extraction)
breakdown s CORRECT,NOUN
accident s
DEF - A failure of equipment. s
1998-09-28

English:Software Defects
fault s CORRECT,NOUN,STANDARDIZED
DEF - An abnormal condition that causes a reduction in, or loss of the capability of a functional unit to perform a required function. s
OBS - fault: Term and definition standardized by ISO, IEEE and CSA. s
1999-02-09

English:Air Transport
outage s
1994-02-16

English:Nuclear Science and Technology
malfunction s CORRECT
EX - A fault tree should ... identify common events, including those that are linked, either as a cause or a consequence, to a failure or malfunction of another system designed to mitigate the consequences of the first failure or malfunction. s
1994-12-08

English:Telecommunications
failure s
OBS - <enterprise systems> s
1996-05-06

English:Informatics
crash s CORRECT
1998-06-

Hi, Frank. Have you found a right translation? If not, can you provide more context? How does the previous folio end (I mean, which is the last word). I´m from Argentina and have translated many legal documents; I´ve also talked to some lawyers but nobody knows the term \\\"pana\\\" Maybe there´s a printing mistake...
:o)