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Statement in employment contract

Recently I have received an job offer, but in contract (under the salary) exists the following statement Die Abtretung und Verpfändung von Vergütungsansprüchen ist ausgeschlossen. Do I understand it ...
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Nutzung des Paragrafen-Plurals

(Da es um die Schreibweise und nicht die juristische Bewertung geht, hier statt bei Law.SE) Mit Verweis auf diese im Internet gefundene Regel legt mir jemand als Kurzform von Paragraph 123 XY-Gesetz ...
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Is this sentence a positive or negative statement?

I'm signing a contract about taking an apartment. There is a list that I have to accept and sign. So I am expecting all the items in this list to be positive things about my tenancy, because I will ...
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Is "befriedet" correctly translated to "pacified" here?

This is prompted by a question over at LawSE. In my attempt to answer, I've had to use Google Translate for this piece of legislation: (1) Wer in die Wohnung, in die Geschäftsräume oder in das ...
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Exact meaning of a few terms in a work contract

I am about to sign my first work contract in German and would like to know the exact meaning of a few terms I've encountered, in order to make sure I have understood everything correctly. Persönliche ...
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Das Verb „patentieren"

Sind folgende Beispiele korrekte Anwendungen des Verbs patentieren? Ich patentiere diese Erfindung. Diese Erfindung wird patentiert. Ich lasse (mir?) diese Erfindung patentieren. Diese Erfindung ...
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"Rechtsprechung" vs "Rechtssprechung"

Besteht ein Unterschied zwischen 'Rechtsprechung' und 'Rechtssprechung' in der deutschen Sprache und, spezieller, in der juristischen Fachsprache? 'Rechtsprechung' taucht auf im Grundgesetz der BRD, ...
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Unterschiedliche Rollen in einem Versicherungsvertrag

In an insurance contract, the roles must normally be precisely defined between: The underwriter: the person who signs the insurance contract (and normally pays the insurance premium) The insured: the ...
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Is it standard practice to use the female gender in legal German?

When reading through my work contract (German employer), I (non-native speaker, male) noticed it also contains a lot of words with a feminine ending. When I wrote my employer about this, they told me ...
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Difference between "haften" and "bürgen"

I'm curious to know what the difference is between "haften" and "bürgen" in German. Google Translate says that "haften" = "to be liable for" and "bürgen" = "to guarantee for", but I'm pretty sure I ...
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Difference between "jail" and "prison" in German

In some English-speaking countries, there is a difference between the words prison and jail, jail being where you are placed prior to a conviction, prison being where you are held afterwards. In ...
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Is there a difference between "anwendbar sein" and "Anwendung finden"

In a publication by the Federal Antidiscrimination Body (Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes), the following excerpt appears regarding § 2 (1) 7 AGG: Bei Benachteiligungen von Studierenden ist ...
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Was steckt hinter der Abkürzung "b. b."?

In einer Gerichtsklage sind Beweise, und zwar Zeugnisse der Personen mit deren Adressen vereinzelt aufgeführt. Wo eine Person wiederholt genannt ist, steht "b. b." anstelle von der Adresse. Welcher ...
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"trespass" in fewer than nine words or 17 syllables

In Chapter 3 of Robert Heinlein's Starman Jones, we find this: Vagrancy in the eyes of the law had not worried him, nor trespass, nor impersonating a licensed teamster—but filching a book was a sin....
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Was ist eine "Hochwertfähigkeit"?

Was bedeutet »Hochwertfähigkeit«? Dieser Begriff scheint ausschließlich in einem militärischen Kontext verwendet zu werden. Beispiele: Unterrichtung durch die Bundesregierung - Drucksache 18/5132 (...
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How to sign a document without accepting the ‘informational small print’?

Is there any short phrase in German that can be used to specify that you agree and undersign all the things you wrote and you filled in, but not to anything else that might be on the same page/in the ...
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Was sind "Attributions" auf Deutsch?

Ich bin aktuell an der Internationalisierung eines Open-Source-Projektes beteiligt. Unter anderem muss ich das Wort "Attributions" übersetzen. Dieses Wort wird als Titelzeile für die rechtlich ...
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Naming members of the PhD defence committee

I am in the process of finishing my PhD thesis (at a university in Germany) and one of the things I am not sure about is how to correctly name the members of the PhD defence committee. I have seen ...
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Zweite Bedeutung von »nachweisen« in der Juristensprache

In dieser Frage wird folgender Satz aus einem Dokument im Zusammenhang einer Wohnungsvermietung zitiert: Der Mietinteressent bestätigt, o.g. ihm unbekannte vermietbare Wohnung vom Makler ...
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