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Legal & official documents
| Serbian | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ȕgovōr | contract |
| ȉzjava | statement |
| pȕnomōćje | power of attorney (the document) |
| ȍvera | certification |
| òvera pȍtpisa | certification of a signature — the note confirming that the signature under the document was made by the person it names |
| òveren prévod | certified translation — a translation carrying the stamp and signature of a court interpreter; a plain translation is just prevod |
| sȗdskī tùmāč | court-certified (sworn) translator whose stamped translation authorities accept |
| apòstil | apostille — an international certification stamp on a document |
| prílog | attachment |
| prímerak | copy — one of the identical signed originals of a document; also a copy of a book |
| u dvȃ prȉmērka | "in two copies" — the closing line of a contract: it exists as several identical signed originals |
| prépis | a copy written out word for word (overen prepis is a certified one); not a census, which is popis |
| svojèručnī pȍtpis | signature in the person's own hand — not a facsimile, not a representative's signature |
| svojèručno | in one's own hand (svojeručno napisana izjava — a handwritten statement) |
| vȁžī do | "valid until" — the field naming the date after which the document no longer has force |
| ìzdaje se na zȁhtev strȁnke | "issued at the party's request" — the closing line of a certificate: the office issued it because the person came for it. It ends a uverenje, the certificate an authority draws from its own records; a potvrda is a confirmation an employer or a bank can equally give. Stranka here is the applicant at the counter, not a political party |
| pod pȕnom mòrālnōm i materìjālnōm odgovórnošću | "under full moral and material responsibility" — the formula affirming a Serbian izjava: the signer answers for what is written in it |
| bez nȁknade | "free of charge" — the note that no fee is taken for the document or the act (naknada is a fee for a service) |
| formùlār | form — a printed sheet with fields to fill in; in everyday Serbian obrazac is the usual word |
| čȉtko | legibly — so that what is written can be read (forms say popuniti čitko štampanim slovima) |
| štȁmpanīm slòvima | "in block capitals" — the instruction on a form not to write in cursive |
| dȍle pòtpisanī | "the undersigned" — how a person names themselves at the start of a statement (ja, dole potpisani…); a woman writes dole potpisana |
| klàuzula | clause — a separate stipulation inside a contract (klauzula o poverljivosti — confidentiality clause) |
| òdredba | provision — a single stipulation of a law or contract; the native word where klauzula is the borrowing |
| ùgovōrnā strána | contracting party (the other side at the table is druga strana) |
| pòtpisnīk | signatory — the one who has signed the document; a woman is potpisnica |
| ìzjava o sàglasnosti | statement of consent — the document by which a person consents in writing to another's act: izjava is what one declares, saglasnost is the consent itself |
| ȁkt | act — an official document of an authority, the umbrella term for its kinds: a rešenje decides the matter itself, a zaključak settles a side question, an odluka is a decision taken; in office talk akt is simply 'a paper' |
| màtičnā knjȉga | civil register — the state book of births, marriages and deaths from which an izvod (certificate) is issued |
| dèlovodnī brȏj | registry reference number — the number under which an office has entered the document in its own log |
| brȏj prȅdmeta | case number — the number of the file in which the office keeps your matter (predmet here is a case, not a school subject) |
| pìsārnica | registry — the counter of an institution where incoming documents are received and logged |
| àrhiva | archive — the body of documents put away for keeping; the archive as an institution is arhiv (masc.) |
| memoràndum | letterhead — the sheet bearing an organisation's header on which it writes official letters (not a memorandum of agreement) |
| nádležan | competent (authority) |
| ovlástiti | to authorise — to give someone the right to act in one's name (perfective; imperfective ovlašćivati) |
| ìzdati | to issue (a document, a certificate); the same verb also means to betray: izdati nekoga is to betray someone |
| pòništiti | to annul, to declare void (a document, an entry); also to cancel a ticket by punching it |
| nèvažēćī | invalid, no longer in force (a document, a signature) — the opposite of važeći; not 'unimportant', which is nevažan |
| stúpiti na snágu | to come into force, take effect (ugovor stupa na snagu danom potpisivanja) |
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