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Explanation: الحكم بمثابة حضوري يعني أنه تم استدعاء الأطراف بصفة قانونية وتغيب أحدهم ولم يحضر كذلك نائب المدعي أو وكيل المدعى عليه، وتوفرت للمحكمة العناصر الكافية للفصل في مطالب المدعي.
Also, neither the asker's text nor the Moroccan Enclylopedia talk about the plaintiff winning the judgment, which is what happens in a default judgment.
Many thanks for all of you @Fuad Yahya and @Ludina Sallam for your helpful and amazing discussion! As I mentioned before it may be a typo and it is translated in many website in many countries as follow: إذا كان الحكم بالحق قد صدر بمثابة الحضوري عليك إعلانه للمحكوم عليه وإذا لم يكن الحكم مشمولاً بالنفاذ المُعجل عليك الانتظار حتى تنقضي على صدوره أو على إعلانه إذا كان بمثابة الحضوري مهلة الطعن بالاستئناف وهي ثلاثون يوماً ثم تتقدم إلى قسم الخدمات المركزية بطلب التنفيذ وتؤدي الرسوم المُقررة وتوالي متابعة إجراءات التنفيذ لدى إدارة التنفيذ بالدائرة. If the judgment for the right was issued as in presence you have to service it for the convicted .If the judgment wasn't contained by urgent execution you have to wait until thirty days for the period of grace by appeal is terminated .Then you apply an execution application for the registration section , https://www.dc.gov.ae/PublicServices/FAQDetails.aspx?FAQSect... Also, there are many suggestions here in Proz as following: https://www.proz.com/kudoz/arabic-to-english/law-general/644... Thanks agai
Thank you for the very productive discussion. I am going to "agree"to Ramadam Ibrahim's answer, with a slight addendum. He was correct in essence. I am going to suggest that we both "won" the experience of this very enlightening conversation. Thank you.
So far, neither in the asker's question nor in the legal references you provided do we encounter the expression بمثابة حضوري used by way of arcane jargon. Once the typo issue has been resolved (thanks to you and Ramadan), the meaning becomes plain, and I would recommend a plain translating of the expression, just the way it sounds.
Thank you again for clarifying. I understand clearly now your thought process behind the literal meaning of بمثابة حضوري . After reading through the explanation again in the وسوعة قانون المسطرة المدنية المغربية I can see that the phrase بمثابة حضوري is not really a defining term, but rather a description of what has happened. So, simply translating those words is correct I think. Also when this appears in the asker's question, it is also as a descriptive phrase. Do you agree?
. . . but I am relying (perhaps too heavily) on the ordinary meaning that we all know of the word بمثابة. Typically, when we say about something that it is بمثابة كذا أو كذا, we mean that it is not so in the ordinary sense but is deemed so in effect. For instance, if I say about a person that he was بمثابة أب, I would be understood to mean that he was not really my father, but, for all practical purposes, he was so. Therefore, بمثابة حضوري would mean "effectively in person." This is, of course, an extrapolation.
Your comments are very useful. However, not being a legal expert myself, I am finding it hard to follow all the different aspects of this. I am not sure what the right answer is.
. . . as well as the definition provided in the California Superior Court English-Arabic Glossary are, of course, correct, but the definition provided in both sources are clearly not the meaning of the term used in the sentence posted by Mr. Hassan Lotfy. The meaning in both dictionaries are closer to "in absentia," which is the opposite of "in person." The meaning of بمثابة حضوري is when the party is absent but the judgment is deemed effectively in person based on specific criteria established by the court. The Arabic text you provided earlier specifies the situation in which a judgment, though render without the presence of the party, is deemed virtually or effectively in person. Item 4 specifies the criterion for this classification, namely, when the judgment is subject to appeal. There may be other criteria in other jurisdictions. The point is that a judgment can be (1) in person, (2) effectively in person, or (3) in absentia. An in absentia judgment can be a default judgment or can be in absentia due to other circumstances.
I found this in Barron's Legal Guides Law Dictionary: DEFAULT JUDGMENT: A judgment entered against a defendant due to his failure to respond to the plaintiff's action or to appear at the trial; "one taken against a defendant who, having been duly summoned in an action, fails to enter an appearance in time;" a judgment which is given without the defendant being heard.
I believe this represents the Arabic meaning well.
Also, the same general definition appears in the Arabic/English legal glossary for the Superior Court of California.
DEFAULT JUDGMENT: A court decision in favor of the plaintiff when the defendant doesn't answer or go to court when they're supposed to.
حكم غيابي ...ـحكم يصدر عن المحكمة في صالح المدعي بسبب عدم رد المدعى عليه أو تغيبه عن حضور الجلسة.
It's all but confirmed, it seems to me. I would then suggest translating بمثالة حضوري to "effectively in person," "virtually in person," "tantamount to in person," or something to that effect.
الحالة التي يجوز فيها للقاضي أن يحكم غيابياً في الدعوى:ـ أجاز المشرع للقاضي أن يحكم غيابياً عند توافر الشروط الآتية:ـ ١– إذا لم يحضر المدعى عليه أو وكيله ٢– أن يكون قد تم استدعاؤه طبقاً للقانون ٣– ألا يكون قد توصل بالاستدعاء بنفسه ٤– أن يكون الحكم قابلاً للاستئناف ففي هذه الحالة يعتبر الحكم بمثابة حضوري تجاه الأطراف المختلفة And this is the text from that Moroccan website (scroll up or down half a page).
I still find Ramadan Ibrahim's suggestion of a typo quite plausible (and clever), but a confirmation from the agency/client would be helpful. Often, translation agencies have no idea about the content of the documents they send out for translation, so that may be a lost cause. If the agency has an Arabic-speaking specialist, you may be able to explain the dilemma to the specialist, who would in turn clear the matter with the client, who, I presume, is the holder of the document. This may all be wishful thinking on my part, but, who knows, it might be worth a try.
The word that appears in the text is بعتابة. Please confirm two matters:
1. Does the word appear in quotes in the original text. If the term is not in quotes, please do not put it in quotes when you provide context. It can cause confusion.
2. Is the word بعتابة or بمثابة, as suggested by Ramadan Ibrahim, below, which has obvious merit. Please confirm, because it would change everything.
Please write down enough context. The sentence which you wrote is very redundant
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Explanation: الحكم بمثابة حضوري يعني أنه تم استدعاء الأطراف بصفة قانونية وتغيب أحدهم ولم يحضر كذلك نائب المدعي أو وكيل المدعى عليه، وتوفرت للمحكمة العناصر الكافية للفصل في مطالب المدعي.
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الحكم بمثابة حضوري يعني أنه تم استدعاء الأطراف بصفة قانونية وتغيب أحدهم ولم يحضر كذلك نائب المدعي أو وكيل المدعى عليه، وتوفرت للمحكمة العنا
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