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Oficial vitalícia (BR)

English translation: (justice) clerk for life

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Portuguese term or phrase:Oficial vitalícia (BR)
English translation:(justice) clerk for life
Entered by: Edna Pais

06:07 Sep 13, 2013
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Law (general) / Civil registry
Portuguese term or phrase: Oficial vitalícia (BR)
A oficial do Regristo Civil que assina a certidão de casamento
Edna Pais
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:44
(justice) clerk for life
Explanation:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/portuguese_to_english/law_general/...


www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?...‎Traduzir esta página
A royal letter formally mandating him as justice clerk for life was composed on 25 June 1547. By then he had the funds to lend 2000 merks to Matthew Hamilton ...

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Note added at 2202 days (2019-09-24 11:29:17 GMT) Post-grading
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The correct answer is "lifetime officer or clerk"
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Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 22:44
Grading comment
obrigada:)
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2(justice) clerk for life
Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
4 +1lifetime officer/clerk
Marlene Curtis
4Registrar
Marcia R Pinheiro
Summary of reference entries provided
T o b i a s

  

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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
lifetime officer/clerk


Explanation:



http://www.proz.com/kudoz/portuguese_to_french/law_general/1...

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_portuguese/law_patents/...

https://www.google.com/#q=oficial vitalicio

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 16:44
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 1314

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ana Rita Santiago: ou lifetime registrar
20 mins
  -> Grata!
neutral  T o b i a s: Ref 1: wrong language pair (again). Ref 2: obviously supports 'for life'. Ref 3: pointless.
4 hrs
  -> Lifetime NOT for life
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1 day 14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Registrar


Explanation:
England is the English-speaking Country that most looks like Brazil in terms of marriages and offices.
http://www.ciec1.org/GuidePratique/Pays/etatsmembres/Royaume... is a copy of their guide for marriages.
The Registrar is the one who signs it.
The lifetime thing you may add as a footnote, if you wish. I love footnotes, as everyone knows and you can read from my text here, at PROz.


    Reference: http://www.ciec1.org/GuidePratique/Pays/etatsmembres/Royaume...
Marcia R Pinheiro
Australia
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 19
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
oficial vitalícia (br)
(justice) clerk for life


Explanation:
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/portuguese_to_english/law_general/...


www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.jsp?...‎Traduzir esta página
A royal letter formally mandating him as justice clerk for life was composed on 25 June 1547. By then he had the funds to lend 2000 merks to Matthew Hamilton ...

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Note added at 2202 days (2019-09-24 11:29:17 GMT) Post-grading
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The correct answer is "lifetime officer or clerk"

Salvador Scofano and Gry Midttun
Norway
Local time: 22:44
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in NorwegianNorwegian, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 175
Grading comment
obrigada:)

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Claudio Mazotti
1 hr
  -> Obrigado!
neutral  Marlene Curtis: The example you gave says the clerk was nominated as a justice clerk for life (for the duration of his life), it is not a title.
5 hrs
  -> Obrigado!
agree  T o b i a s
8 hrs
  -> Obrigado!
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Reference comments


10 hrs
Reference

Reference information:
Does Brookhaven’s Mark Lesko have any rich friends who can cover the town supervisor’s proposed budget whack?…DA for life? Sheriff for life? Clerk for life? Why should Tom Spota, Vincent Demarco and Judith Pascale settle for mere 12-year runs now that Judge Ralph Gazzillo has declared the Suffolk term limits unconstitutional?…
http://henican.com/romneys-the-best-obamas-better—the-debate...

"I think he had higher ambitions than just being county clerk for life," said one longtime Democrat and Keating confidant, "but that really took the wind out of his sails.
http://articles.philly.com/1993-02-09/news/25955911_1_clerk-...

Roger marbeck, having given satisfaction for two years, was made Registrar for life in 1581, thus acquiring a status (and a burden) otherwise only conferred on the Elects.
Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London: Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners, 1550-1640, p. 26. Margaret Pelling, 2003. Oxford.

He would, however, first state that in the Prerogative Court a most reprehensible practice had existed of appointing a person to the office of registrar for life. p. 434. The legal observer, and solicitors' journal
London : Wm. Maxwell, 1854-1856

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T o b i a s
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 53
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