Glosario espaol-ingls

A beneficio de inventario

Acceptance under benefice of inventory [cuando la
legislacin concede al heredero el privilegio de
responder por el pasivo de la herencia nicamente
hasta el lmite del activo. De este modo, el
heredero podr negarse a aceptar las deudas si
superan el valor de lo heredado.]

A da X

On the X (day) of (month)

A instancias

On the application

A los efectos de

For the purposes of/Toward satisfaction of

A mi juicio

In my judgement

A peticin

On the request

A peticin suya

At his/her request

A su total discrecin

In his/her absolute discretion

Abonarse con cargo al patrimonio
de X

To be paid out of Xs estate

Acreedor

Creditor

Actuando de forma libre y
voluntaria

Not being actuated by any menace, fraud or undue
influence
Not being actuated by any constraint or undue
influence

Adecuarse a la legalidad

To be in accordance with the legal
requirements/stipulations

Adir
[aceptar la herencia] To accept the inheritance

Administrador judicial de los
bienes de un difunto [en sucesin
intestada]

Administrator/ Administratrix [femenino]

Administrar los bienes

To manage the property

Adquirir

To purchase

Al fallecer X

On the death of X

Al que sobreviva de ellos

The survivor of them

Albacea (testamentario)

Executor [Executor Nominate - Scotland]
Executrix [femenino]

Ambos fallecidos

Both deceased

Ante m

Before me

Anular un testamento

To invalidate a will

Apostilla

Apostille

Arrendar

To lease

Artculo

Section

As lo dice y otorga

So he/she states and executes

Atestiguar [presenciar el acto en
calidad de testigos]

To witness a will

Autopsia Post-mortem/Autopsy

Beneficiario/Sucesor/
Causahabiente

Beneficiary

Bienes en el extranjero

Properties abroad

Bienes inmuebles

Real Estate/Realty

Bienes muebles

Personal Estate/Personalty

Bienes muebles e inmuebles

Real and personal (property)
[se expresa en el orden inverso al espaol]

Bien(es) sito(s)

Estate located

Bien sujeto al rgimen de
gananciales

Community property

Capacidad legal necesaria para

(To have) full legal capacity to/(to be) of sound
mind to

Capacidad testamentaria

Testamentary capacity

(Cargo) no vinculante

[To serve] without bond

(Casado) en nicas nupcias

(To be married to [Name]), my first and only
wife/To be married only once to

Caudal hereditario

Estate

Causa/Juicio/Asunto

Matter

Causante/Fallecido/Finado Deceased/Decedent

Certificado/Partida de Defuncin

Death Certificate/Certificate of Death

Certificado de Empadronamiento

Spanish Certificate of Registered Domicile

Certificado literal

Complete form

Clusula

Disposition

Clusula/Disposicin testamentaria

Testing clause

Clusula testifical

Attestation clause

Coaccin

Coercion

Co(-)albacea

Co-executor

Codicilo (testamentario)

Codicil

Cohabitante

Cohabitant

Coheredero

Co-inheritor

Colacin

Hotchpotch

Comparece

Appears

Comparecencia

Gathering

Compareciente (el/la)

The Testator/Testatrix/Declarant

Comparecientes (los)

Those here present

Con arreglo a (legislacin)

Under/Following/By virtue of

Con domicilio en/Vecino de

At/Of/A resident of

Conflicto de intereses

Conflict of interest(s)

Conmoriencia

Whose death occurred at the same time/Dying at
the same time

Conocemos/Conocen al testador

The testator/declarant is known to us

Consentir

To agree to

Conservar todas sus facultades

To have all his/her faculties

Cnyuge

Spouse

Cnyuge suprstite

Surviving spouse

Copia fiel

True copy

Copia simple

Uncertified copy

Copropietarios

Joint owners

Costas procesales

Proceedings costs

Cumplir/Alcanzar la edad de

To attain the age of

Cuota legitimaria

A part of the deceaseds estate/Property someone is
entitled to by law

Curatela

Guardianship

Daos y perjuicios

(Legal) damages

Dar fe

To give testimony/To certify

De forma libre y voluntaria

Freely and intentionally

De haber seguido con vida

On survivance

De mutuo acuerdo

On an agreed basis

De su puo y letra

In his/her own hand

Debidamente autorizado

Duly authorised


Declaracin de voluntades
anticipadas

Living Will Advance Directives

Declarante

Informant

Defuncin/Fallecimiento/bito

Death

Demanda testamentaria

Probate action

Derecho de/Legislacin en materia
de sucesiones

Law of Succession/Inheritance Law
/Probate duty

Derecho del que no usa

X renounces that right

Descendencia

Descendants

Descendiente

Descendant

Desheredar To disinherit

Despus de advertirle del derecho

Having been notified/informed of the right

Disponer

To direct
To express the wish that
To make provision

Disposiciones legales

Legal provisions

Disposiciones/Clusulas
testamentarias

Provisions/Dispositions/Terms and Provisions

Dividendos

Dividends

D.N.I.

Spanish National Identity Card Number

Domicilio particular

Home address

Donacin
[bien/es a ttulo lucrativo recibidos
en vida del testador]

Donation [Gift]

Donante

Donor

Donatario

Donee/Recipient

Ejercitar sus facultades

To exercise his/her/their powers

El/los abajo firmante/s

The undersigned

El causante/el finado/el fallecido

The Deceased/the Testator/the Testatrix

El contenido del presente
instrumento
Everything contained in this public document

El documento fue otorgado ante m

The instrument was acknowledged before me

El testador lo encuentra conforme
por ser lo consignado expresin
exacta de su ltima y deliberada
voluntad /
El testador manifiesta que lo escrito
y ledo refleja fielmente su voluntad

The testator confirms that it is in accordance with
his wishes

Embalsamamiento

Embalming

Emprender acciones legales

To institute and prosecute legal proceedings

Empresa de pompas fnebres

The Undertakers

En caso de que X me premuera

In the event that X fails to survive me


En el momento del fallecimiento
de X

Upon the death of X

En el supuesto de que

Should + sujeto + be + participio

En fe de lo cual

In witness whereof

En fideicomiso

On/Upon/In trust

En partes alcuotas/A partes
iguales

Share and share alike/Equally

En pleno dominio

Absolute Property

En pleno uso de las facultades
mentales
Mentally competent/With full knowledge

En representacin de

On behalf of

En su propio nombre y
representacin/derecho

In his/her own name and behalf

Encontrar (un documento)
conforme

To confirm that it is in accordance with his/her
wishes

Entierro

Burial

Escritura

Deed

Escritura de fideicomiso

Deed of trust/Trust Deed

Estado vegetativo

Vegetative estate

Estando sometido a intimidacin

Under duress, fraud and coercion

Estar en pleno uso de las
facultades mentales

To be of sound mind
To be of sound and disposing mind
To be of sound and disposing mind and memory
With full knowledge

Estar presente

To appear

(Estimar) oportuno

[Subject +] shall think fit

Ex-cnyuge

Former spouse

Exigido (por ley)

Stipulated by

Expedido en/Extendido en

Given/Issued in

Extracto [Certificado]

Short form

Facultades

Powers

Facultades del albacea

Executors powers

Fallecimiento
simultneo/Conmoriencia

Simultaneous death

Fecha del otorgamiento

Time of execution

Fechar

To date

Fideicomisar

To entrust/To hold upon trust

Fideicomisario [Fiduciario]

Trustee (of a settlement)

Fideicomiso

Trust
[en fideicomiso: on/upon trust]

Fideicomitente

Settlor/Grantor/Trustor

Firmar de puo y letra

To set ones hand

Fondos de pensiones

Pension funds

Fondos fiduciarios

Trust monies

Formalidades

Requirements/Formalities

Formalidades legales observadas Legal requirements observed

Funeral

Funeral

Gastos de administracin de la
herencia

Expenses of administration/administering the estate

Gastos derivados del funeral

Funeral expenses

Gastos testamentarios varios
[derivados del cumplimiento del
presente testamento]

Testamentary expenses

Gravamen/Carga/Hipoteca [que
pesa sobre una propiedad]

Encumbrance

Guarda y custodia

Custody

Hacer uso de fondos fiduciarios

To apply trust monies

Heredar/Percibir una herencia

To inherit

Heredero

Heir/Inheritor

Heredero forzoso/legtimo o
legitimario

Heir-at-law

Herencia

Inheritance

Hijastros

Stepchildren

Hijo de los finados

Son of [Names], (both deceased)
Son of the deceased [Names]

Hipoteca Mortgage

Homologar/Autenti(fi)car un
testamento

To prove/To obtain probate/To grant probate of a
will

Identificar

To know somebody

Ilustre Colegio de Notarios de X

The Notaries (Public) Association of X

Impuesto de sucesiones

Inheritance tax

Impugnar un testamento

To contest a will
To challenge a will
To dispute a will

Incapacidad

Disability

Incineracin/Cremacin

Cremation

Incrementos de la herencia

Accretions

Incumplir la ley

To break the law

Individuos/Personas

Persons

Influencia indebida

Undue influence

Inscripcin en el Registro

Registration

Institucin de herederos

The estates division/The estate (is) to be divided

Instituir heredero(s)

To appoint [Name/s] as his/her heirs

Inters vitalicio Life interest

Interponer [demandas]

To bring

Intervalo de lucidez

Lucid interval

Intestado

Intestate

Juez de Instruccin

Examining Judge

Juicio testamentario/sucesorio

Probate Proceedings

La suma de

The amount of

Lectura del testamento

Will Reading

Leer en alta voz/en voz alta

To read it aloud

Lega

I give to/unto
I give, and devise to/unto
I give, devise and bequeath to/unto

Legado

Bequest/Gift: Legado
Devise: Legado de bienes inmuebles
Legacy: Legado de bienes muebles

Legado condicional

Conditional gift

Legado de cosa cierta/especfica

Specific gift [tambin se observa specific
bequest]

Legado general

General Gift/Legacy

Legar

To bequeath [bienes muebles]
To devise [bienes inmuebles]

Legatario (de bienes inmuebles)

Devisee

Legatario (de bienes muebles)

Legatee

Legislacin sobre sucesin
intestada/abintestato

(The rules/laws of) Intestacy

Legtima (estricta)

Tercio de libre disposicin




Tercio de mejora

Forced heirship. The third part of the deceaseds
property that descends to natural heirs by
legislation
The one third of the total value of a property,
distributed by the testator at will, that may disposed
freely (by legislation). The applicable Spanish Law
(Cdigo Civil) states that if a person dies leaving
children, one third of the deceaseds estate must be
divided equally among all of them. A second third
must be given to some of the children (or
grandchildren). The last third may be disposed of
freely
Third distributed among heirs as the testator
chooses

Lego la totalidad de mi patrimonio

I give my entire estate

Ley

Act/Law

Libre de impuestos

Free of tax
Tax-exempt
Tax-free

Llamado

Whose name is

Manifestaciones Statements

Manifestacin/Declaracin
revocable

Revocable Declaration

Masa de la herencia

Gross estate

Masa hereditaria
Caudal hereditario/Patrimonio

Estate

Matriz

Master copy

Mayor de edad

Of (full) legal age

Menor de edad

Minor/Infant/Underage (person)/Person under 18
years

Mi residencia

My place of residence

Nacida [apellido de soltera si es
mujer y se ha casado]

Ne/Maiden surname

No (resulta) ejecutable

Unenforceable

No estar en pleno uso de las
facultades mentales

(To be) Of unsound mind

No tener vigencia/efecto

To be held to be inoperative

Nombramiento de beneficiario(s)

Beneficiary designation

Nombramiento del administrador
judicial de los bienes de un difunto

Letter of Administration (of Estate)

Nombrar/Designar To appoint/To nominate/To nominate and appoint

Notara

Notary (Public) Office

Notario/Fedatario

Notary Public

Notario del Ilustre Colegio (de
Notarios) de X

Notary Public in X/ Notary Public of the Official
Notaries Association in X/of the Notaries (Public)
Association in X

Notificarle algo a alguien

To serve something on somebody

Nuda propiedad
[atributo del dominio de una
cosa, que se separa del
usufructo en tanto en que ste
perdura]

The legal title/ownership
[the applicable Spanish Law states that the property
can be divided into legal title or ownership-
legal but not beneficial ownership- and usufruct-
a special legal right to use and enjoy the property
or part of it]

Observar todas las formalidades
exigidas por ley/
Observarse la unidad del acto y
dems formalidades legales

To carry out all the stipulated formalities (in the
corresponding section of the Spanish Civil Code)

Ordenar su ltima voluntad

To execute his/her (Last) Will

Otorgamiento

Execution

Otorgar ante/en presencia de notario

To make in the presence of a notary public

Otorgar potestad

To confer authority

Otorgar testamento/Testar

To make a will/To execute a will/To make, publish
and declare/To make disposition of (property)/To
write this will

Panten familiar Family vault

Papel timbrado

Stamped paper/Official paper

Para el supuesto de

In the event that

Pareja en cohabitacin/
cohabitante de hecho

Cohabiting couple/Couple in cohabitation

Parte/Porcin (de una
herencia que le corresponde a
alguien)

Share

Parte interesada

Interested party

Pasar a formar parte de un
patrimonio residual

To fall into a residuary estate

Patrimonio

Estate

Patrimonio residual

Rest, residue and remainder
Residuary estate
Estate residue

Perder el derecho a

To forfeit

Pignorar

To pledge

Plenitud de facultades

Full power

Poder notarial

Power of Attorney
Power of Appointment

Pliza de un seguro de vida Life (insurance) policy

Por estirpes
[herencia a percibir por los
descendientes del causante]

Per stirpes

Por la/el presente

Hereby

Por la/el presente certificamos

We hereby certify

Por/A/En partes iguales/alcuotas

Equally/
Share and share alike

Poseer la capacidad legal
necesaria para otorgar
testamento

To be of sound mind/To be in full possession of
his/her faculties

Premoriencia (En caso de)

In case X predeceases/fails to survive

Premorir

To predecease/To fail to survive (someone)

Presenciar el otorgamiento en
calidad de testigo

To witness the will

Prestacin

Benefit

Prestar el consentimiento

To give his/her consent

Pretericin

Postponement/Pretermission/Omission

Previo pago

Subject to the payment

Procedimiento contencioso

Contentious proceeding

Proceso judicial Litigation

Procesos judiciales

Court Proceedings

Profesin

Occupation

Prole/Hijo/-a

Offspring

Propiedad asegurada

Insured property

Propiedad en fideicomiso

Trust property

Proveer

To provide

Quien me exhibe D.N.I./
pasaporte

Holder of Spanish Identity Card Number/Passport

Recaer en

To vest in

Recaudador de impuestos

Tax collector

Reclamante/Demandante

Claimant

Reclamar/Realizar una
reclamacin

To make a claim

Remanente

What remains of the estate/Residuary estate/Estate
residue/The residue of the estate

Renunciar [a algo]

To waive/To disclaim

Renunciar a una parte o a la
totalidad de los bienes

To disclaim the whole or any part of the property

Repartir To distribute

Revocacin

Cancellation/Revocation/(Ademption)

Revocar un testamento

To revoke a will

Se confieren poder recprocamente

Are mutually empowered to [+ verb]

Seguro de decesos/enterramiento

Burial insurance

(Pliza de) Seguro de vida

Life insurance (policy)

Sello

Stamp/Seal

Sepultura [tumba]

Burial plot

Ser inhumado

To be buried

Ser natural de

To be born in

Servidumbres

Easements

Si X acepta (dicho legado)

If X receives that

Siempre que

Provided that

Siendo las X horas

At X a.m./p.m.

Sigue la firma de

Signed by

Sito/-a en X

Located in/In

So pena de

Under penalty of

Sobrevivientes/Supervivientes

Those who survive the testator

Sobrevivir

To survive

Sobrevivirle a alguien

To live at someones death/To survive someone

Sucesin

Succession

Sucesin forzosa/intestada/
legtima/abintestato

Intestate succession/Intestacy

Sucesin testada

Testate succession

Sustitucin vulgar

Ordinary substitution/Vulgaris substitution

Tener la carga de una hipoteca

To have a mortgage

Tener relacin consangunea,
marital o adoptiva

To be related by blood, marriage or adoption

Tener validez

To have effect (provisions)

Terreno [finca]

Land

Testado/-a

Testate

Testador/Otorgante/Disponente

Testator

Testadora

Testatrix

Testamento

Will/Last Will and Testament

Testamento abierto (pblico o
nuncupativo)
Nuncupative will

Testamento cerrado/secreto

Sealed will

Testamento condicionado

Conditional will

Testamento de X

(Last) Will and (Testament) of X

Testamento electrnico

Electronic will/e-will

Testamento en caso de epidemia

Will when testator (is) in danger from an epidemic

Testamento en inminente peligro
de muerte

Will when imminent testators death
Will when testators death is imminent

Testamento internacional

International will

Testamento martimo

Seamans will

Testamento militar/asimilado

Soldiers will

Testamento olgrafo

Holograph(ic) will

Testamento otorgado en pas
extranjero

Foreign will

Testamento para incapacitados

Statutory will

Testamento sellado/secreto

Sealed will

Testamento verbal/oral

Oral will

Testamento vital Living will

Testar

To execute a will

Testigos

Witnesses

(La) Totalidad del patrimonio

The entire estate

Trmite

(Administrative) Proceeding

Transferir/Ceder

To dispose

Tras haber prestado el oportuno
juramento

Being duly sworn

Tras prestar el oportuno juramento
ante la autoridad pertinente

Do solemnly swear upon my oath (to the authority)

Traspaso de dominio

Transfer of ownership

Tutor

Guardian [Legal guardian (Scotland)]

Tutor testamentario

Testamentary guardian

Unido/-a (adjunto)

Herewith/Attached

Usufructo

Usufruct/(Life interest)
[the legal right to use and enjoy the
Property or part of it]

Usufructo vitalicio

Lifelong usufruct [A life right]

Validacin testamentaria

Probate

Vlido

Valid

Vecino/-a de

(Resident) of/in

Vigencia

Force

Vigente

In force