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prend ses faits

English translation: assumes all liability / undertakes to defend his interests at his risk and expense

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French term or phrase:prend ses faits
English translation:assumes all liability / undertakes to defend his interests at his risk and expense
Entered by: EirTranslations

11:48 Nov 4, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
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French term or phrase: prend ses faits
Pls see below thanks

Par ailleurs, le Fournisseur s'engage a respecter les obligations et a maintenir les droits inherents a !'exploitation de la centrale et il degage le Distributeur de toute responsabilite a cet egard et prend ses faits et cause quant a toutes reclamations, poursuites ou actions en justice, le cas echeant, a ses frais.
EirTranslations
Ireland
Local time: 00:55
assumes all liability / undertakes to defend his interests at his risk and expense
Explanation:
based on the explanations and link provided by Tony :)
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Zofia Wislocka
Local time: 01:55
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thx
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Summary of answers provided
4assumes all liability / undertakes to defend his interests at his risk and expense
Zofia Wislocka
Summary of reference entries provided
prendre faits et cause
Tony M

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prend ses faits et cause
assumes all liability / undertakes to defend his interests at his risk and expense


Explanation:
based on the explanations and link provided by Tony :)

Zofia Wislocka
Local time: 01:55
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Native speaker of: Polish
PRO pts in category: 12
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Reference comments


20 mins peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: prendre faits et cause

Reference information:
It's a set expression, here's one ref. that appears to explain it, and a quick Google reveals several possible refs. offering potential translations:

prendre fait et cause - Dictionnaire SensAgent

dictionnaire.sensagent.com/prendre+fait+et+cause/fr-fr/

Définitions de prendre fait et cause, synonymes, antonymes, dérivés de prendre fait et cause, dictionnaire analogique de prendre fait et cause (français)

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Note added at 37 mins (2012-11-04 12:26:17 GMT)
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This is a slighlty more useful definition, though there are plenty of others:

http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/prendre_fait_et_cause

Tony M
France
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 258
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Asker: Thank you Tony


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