Glossary entry

English term or phrase:

enfranchisement

Serbian translation:

давање права на откуп некретнине

Added to glossary by John Farebrother
Nov 22, 2016 12:07
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English term

enfranchisement

English to Serbian Law/Patents Law: Contract(s)
The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (the 1967 Act) gives leasehold tenants of houses the right to buy the freehold. The right to compulsorily purchase the freehold (and any intermediate leasehold interest, e.g. head lease) is termed enfranchisement.

Discussion

Daryo Nov 27, 2016:
you can always analyse the etymology of "enfranchisement" and translate it as "стицање слободе" or even "ослобађање од ропства" but I would be very curious to know how many people in Serbia would have any clue as to what it could really mean ...

What would be the point of a translation that only people who do not need the translation anyway could understand? Sounds to me that it would be defeating the point of the whole exercise?
Vesna Maširević Nov 25, 2016:
Daryo you did manage to make the whole thing quite puzzling.

"The right to compulsorily purchase the freehold is termed enfranchisement." - Pravo na prinudni otkup (bez pristanka vlasnika) se naziva davanje prava na otkup? A pri tom je isto navedeno i u prethodnoj rečenici.
Daryo Nov 23, 2016:
@ John as it is said:

The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 (the 1967 Act) gives leasehold tenants of houses the right to buy the freehold.

It's a right that didn't exist previously and was "given" to leaseholders by a new Law (after some heavy duty campaigning, it wasn't offered on a plate by freeholders ..., I remember the whole saga!)

So the closest to the ST is "давати / даје право ..." or from the viewpoint of the leaseholders "добити / добили право ..." or in a sentence "стекли право на откуп " ...

"Остваривање права" wouldn't be wrong, but could be ambiguous - I would rather use that for an existing right - for a situation where you have followed a required procedure and you have "realised your right to [whatever]" "остварити право на ..."

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давање права на откуп некретнине

can't see anything shorter that won't be misleading or puzzling for a Serbian reader.

You could explain the reason for using "enfranchisement" literally as: "право дугорочног закупца некретнине да се ослободи ропства које му намеће власник некретнине" but without knowing the practical aspects of being a "leaseholder"in England it does sounds rather weird.

just to make it more fun, "leasehold" is a legal category that exists only in England, a kind of long term tenancy (закуп некретнине) usually for 125 years, but some leasehold are for 999 years!

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possibly:

"стицање права на откуп некретнине"
Note from asker:
Možda bolje 'ostvarenje prava an otkup nekretnine'?
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davanje prava glasa

davanje prava glasa imateljima dionica bez prava glasa n./ban. enfranchisement

ENGLISH-CROATIAN OR SERBIAN
DICTIONARY
BERISLAV GRGIC KARLA CIZELJ VERA MOSKOVIC VIKTOR RATNIK
BY SASTAVILI RUDOLF FILIPOVIC

enfranchisement[in'fraentjizmant] s oslobođenje, davanje građanstva, davanje građanskih izbornih prava, davanje prava glasa
Peer comment(s):

disagree Daryo : context a dirty word?
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