Italian to French legal translation. The third official language, in its own right
Ticino administers justice in Italian, and the Confederation publishes its acts in that language. Swiss legal Italian is not the Italian of Italy, and a general-purpose engine readily swaps one for the other.
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powered by Neur.on5. Se un organismo diverso da un organo di ricorso di cui al paragrafo 4 esamina inizialmente un ricorso, la Parte garantisce che il prestatore di servizi possa impugnarne la decisione iniziale dinanzi a un organo di ricorso indipendente dall’ente aggiudicatore il cui appalto è oggetto del ricorso.
5. Dans les cas où un organe autre qu’un organe de recours visé au par. 4 examine initialement un recours, la Partie fait en sorte que le fournisseur puisse faire appel de la décision initiale devant un organe de recours qui est indépendant de l’entité contractante dont le marché fait l’objet d’un recours.
SR-0.632.313.601 Accord-de-libre-échange-du-27-juin-2016-entre-les-États-de-lAELE-et-la-Gé - Source: fedlex.admin.ch - Data Set: Neur.onLa parte che intende impugnare una decisione sia con un ricorso ordinario sia con un ricorso in materia costituzionale deve presentare entrambi i ricorsi con una sola e medesima istanza.
Si une partie forme contre une décision un recours ordinaire et un recours constitutionnel, elle doit déposer les deux recours dans un seul mémoire.
SR-173.110 BGG-LTF-LTF - Source: fedlex.admin.ch - Data Set: Neur.onb. l’autorità di ricorso nel quadro di una procedura di ricorso, a condizione che la procedura di ricorso venga sospesa.
b. par l’instance de recours, s’il y a procédure de recours, pour autant que cette procédure soit suspendue.
SR-172.220.113.41 Ordinanza-dell-11-aprile-2002-sulla-commissione-paritetica-di-riesame-delle-valutazioni-delle-funzioni-nel-settore-dei-PF - Source: fedlex.admin.ch - Data Set: Neur.onThe official equivalents, in all four languages
Six terms where the Italian of Switzerland follows its own path, with the federal article that sets them. The English column gives the Confederation's translation published on Fedlex where one exists, which has no legal force, and the usual wording otherwise.
| German | French | Italian | English | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beschwerde | recours | ricorso | appeal | art. 72 LTF |
| Bundesgericht | Tribunal fédéral | Tribunale federale | Federal Supreme Court | art. 188 Cst. |
| Zahlungsbefehl | commandement de payer | precetto esecutivo | summons for payment | art. 69 LP |
| Strafbefehl | ordonnance pénale | decreto d'accusa | summary penalty order | art. 352 CPP |
| Verzugszins | intérêt moratoire | interessi moratori | default interest | art. 104 CO |
| Mängelrüge | avis au vendeur | avviso al venditore | notice of defects | art. 201 CO |
Equivalents taken from official Swiss texts, published in German, French and Italian. In Corrext, each term opens in context in Fast lookup CHnell, with its source.
This language pair in practice
Italian is one of the three languages in which federal acts are published and authoritative. Swiss legal terminology in Italian therefore comes from these texts, not from usage in Italy. The same words can exist on both sides of the border and designate different institutions and procedures.
An authoritative version
The Italian version of a federal act has the same force as the German and French versions. It is not a courtesy translation: it is a reference text.
What gets converted
LEFDEBA
Abbreviations of their own
The Federal Act on Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy is abbreviated LEF in Italian, LP in French, SchKG in German and DEBA in English. The Code of Obligations is CO in Italian, French and English, but OR in German.
DTFATF
Case law
A published decision is cited as DTF in Italian, ATF in French and BGE in German, with the same volume and page number. The Classified Compilation is abbreviated RS in Italian and in French, and SR in German.
precetto esecutivo
Switzerland or Italy
Ricorso, precetto esecutivo and decreto d'accusa designate specific procedural acts in Switzerland. An engine trained on Italian law substitutes concepts from Italy that do not follow the same rules. The error is silent: the text still reads smoothly, but it describes a different procedure.
Tribunale federale
The institutions
The Tribunale federale (Federal Supreme Court) is the highest court in Switzerland, and the ricorso goes to it. A reference to an Italian court makes no sense in a Swiss document.
What Corrext guarantees for this pair
A native language
Italian is one of the four native languages of LexMachina, with German, French and English, and one of only four languages available in Highly sensitive content mode. For the foreign documents in a case file, the platform covers 30 languages in total.
Checking in context
Every Italian term can be found in Fast lookup CHnell with its source segment and reference, alongside the French and German versions of the same article.
Cantonal documents
The canton of Ticino's acts, rulings and forms follow the federal Italian terminology. That terminology is the foundation before any adaptation into French.
Three case files from Ticino
Litigation
A Ticino ruling to work with
The procedure described is federal; only the language changes. Procedural terms are converted from the French version of the same article, not from a general Italian-French dictionary.
Debt enforcement
A precetto esecutivo to translate
Summons for payment (commandement de payer), objection (opposition), setting aside of the objection (mainlevée): the debt enforcement chain has fixed vocabulary in all three official languages. An approximation at this stage can mean a missed time limit, sometimes the loss of the right itself.
Companies
Ticino contracts to integrate
Commercial register extracts, articles of association and contracts are translated with the terms of the Code of Obligations. Registered company names and legal forms stay as they are.
Frequently asked questions about Italian to French translation
Is Swiss legal Italian different from the Italian of Italy?
Yes, and the difference concerns the essentials: institutions and procedures. A Swiss ricorso goes to the Tribunale federale. The precetto esecutivo belongs to the debt enforcement procedure under federal law, and the decreto d'accusa is an act under the Swiss Criminal Procedure Code. The same words sometimes exist in Italy and mean something else.
Is the Italian version of a federal act authoritative?
Yes, on the same footing as the German and French versions. That is why terminological equivalents can be read directly in the official texts. The three versions of an article give the three exact terms, without relying on a common-usage translation.
How are abbreviations of Acts converted?
According to the target language. The Federal Act on Debt Enforcement and Bankruptcy is abbreviated LEF in Italian and LP in French. The Federal Act on Private International Law is LDIP in both languages, but IPRG in German. The Code of Obligations stays CO in Italian and French. In English, the Confederation's translations use DEBA, PILA and CO. When in doubt, the full title of the Act is written out.
Do you also translate from French into Italian?
Yes. The four native languages work in every combination, in both directions. They are also the only languages available in Highly sensitive content mode; for foreign documents, the platform covers 30 languages in total.
Ticino documents often arrive scanned. Is that a problem?
No. The PDF to Word tab in Text and document translation converts a scan into an editable Word document before translation, so you keep the structure and can annotate afterwards. Files go back out in their original format.