procuradores

21:14 Jun 8, 2013
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Law/Patents - Agriculture
Portuguese term or phrase: procuradores
I am very confused on whether or not to use the term "attorneys" or "proxies". Can anyone help? Thanks so much. (from contract for Agricultural SUpplies company).


PARÁGRAFO 3º - A assinatura de cheques ou qualquer forma de movimentação bancária de valores, pela Companhia, somente será válida se observado o seguinte:

(a) em caso de operações com valores até R$100.000,00 (cem mil reais), mediante a assinatura de, no mínimo, 2 (dois) diretores ou 2 (dois) procuradores para esse fim;
Ryan Green
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5attorneys
Kevin Freyburg
4procurator
Cesar Silva (X)
4Please, read below
Marlene Curtis
3attorneys-in-fact
T o b i a s
2proxies
Laurindo Ali


  

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attorneys


Explanation:
Best to use attorney - representative authorized to act on someone else's behalf, an individual holding a "power-of-attorney"
The word is mostly used to refer to nonlawyers usually only in fixed phrases such as attorney-in-fact or power of attorney.


    Reference: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/attorney
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procurator


Explanation:
"One authorized to manage the affairs of another; an agent"
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language,



Cesar Silva (X)
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proxies


Explanation:
sugestao

Laurindo Ali
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Please, read below


Explanation:
Power of attorney holders

I was thinking about the phrase

procuradores para esse fim" (proxies, attorneys or whoever for that purpose)

what led me to the conclusion that the two people hold a power of attorney for the single purpose of signing checks and are not really attorneys, or proxies, but power of attorney holders.


Marlene Curtis
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attorneys-in-fact


Explanation:
e.g.
2 (dois) diretores ou 2 (dois) procuradores >>>
two officers or two attorneys-in-fact

Compare with:
KLABIN S/A – CONSOLIDATED BYLAWS
DECEMBER/2011
Article 7 - The certificates of stocks of the company shall be signed by two officers or two attorneys-in-fact with special powers, or, shall even contain facsimile signatures, in compliance with the rules issued by the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission.
http://ri.klabin.com.br/static/enu/estatuto-social.asp?idiom...



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