Jun 2, 2020 09:45
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French term

"régie d'avances et de recettes"

French to English Law/Patents Law (general)
I've discovered that this is an office at the recently-formed Tribunal Judiciaire which appears to be responsible for making and receiving payments (https://www.tribunal-de-paris.justice.fr/75/le-service-de-la...
But I'm wondering whether anyone can suggest an appropriately snappy term in English rather than me spelling it out - or maybe spelling it out is the best way forward.
Thanks in advance if you're able to help me with this!
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Discussion

AllegroTrans Jun 3, 2020:
Totally off-beam again Francois 'Silk' is about barristers' chambers, not the offices within the court. Please go think
Francois Boye Jun 3, 2020:
In the BBC series SILK, the cash is managed at the chamber level and is used some times to bribe other chambers.
philgoddard Jun 3, 2020:
Another possible translation apart from Allegro's "Office ... responsible for making and receiving payments" = payments office.
AllegroTrans Jun 3, 2020:
OK try these: Court cash office closed Friday - Cayman Compass
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Court cash office closed Friday. By. Staff. -. June 25, 2014. Facebook · Twitter · WhatsApp · Email. The cash office and accounts section of the Judicial Financial ...

Business Laws of the Middle East: Lebanon
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... that he shall deposit in a State-approved bank or in the Law Court's cash-office, a sum assessed by the judge to guarantee the debts of the opposing parties.
Nady Tyan, ‎Mohamed Y. Alem - 2001 - ‎Law

Report - Page 3 - Google Books Result
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... Marks) without special request have to be paid within one week after order became enforceable to the court cash office in order to avoid enforced execution.
United States. Congress. Senate - United States

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Francois Boye Jun 3, 2020:
@Allegro Trans

You have provided no reference for your translation (court cash office).
AllegroTrans Jun 2, 2020:
Yes Francois All very good, but this is about a department within a court. Paymaster is irrelevant here as the court doesn't act as an escrow, or make transactions on behalf of buyers and sellers. Think about it.
Francois Boye Jun 2, 2020:
The primary purpose of a paymaster is to receive fees in escrow by buyers in a large transaction, and disburse to the sellers and brokers on the transaction. A paymaster is usually, but not required to be, a lawyer (also known as a 'lawyer paymaster').
Daryo Jun 2, 2020:
I would leave the full name of this "Régie" in French (to avoid any problems if back translation is needed) and add the translation in English in brackets.
Suzie Withers Jun 2, 2020:
Accounts payable and receivable I believe this is the "formal" name for such departments within an organisation - they always used to be separate departments "Accounts payable" and "Accounts receivable", but I think a lot of organisations are merging them together for efficiency
philgoddard Jun 2, 2020:
Thanks.
I actually meant the French context. Depending on this, it may be appropriate to leave it in French (e.g. "send your payment by bank transfer to TGI Chartres régie..." ), or you could put "cashier's department" as a very approximate equivalent.
For "expertise", you could say inspection or expert witness report. But you probably know that.
Sarah Russell (asker) Jun 2, 2020:
Apologies for having omitted to provide the context. A customer had some building work carried out at her home and reported issues to the builder. She has now taken legal action against the builder and asked the court to make an order for an 'expertise' to be carried out to establish whether the alleged issues are indeed true. The 'expertise' will be carried out on the condition that the customer makes an advance payment to the 'TGI Chartres Régie Avances Recettes'.
philgoddard Jun 2, 2020:
Cashier's department?
Could we have the context, please?

Proposed translations

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Court cash office

The Court has a cash office which, inter alia:

1) Receives payments such as fines
2) Makes payments, such as witnesses' out-of-pocket expenses

Personal knowledge, I once did exactly this as a job at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) in London

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In the UK and Ireland there has been a tedency to centralise these offices in one place over the past few years:

www.courts.ie › offices.nsf › opendocument
It processes all financial transactions for District Court offices and combined court offices, including the payment out of family law maintenance, refund of bail, poor box payments and receipting of fines.

Magistrates' Court in E&W used to have a "fines and fees" office within the court building, but these too have become centralised.

The same sort of thing is happening in France, Courts are not taking cash payments and perfer these to be done online or by ban transfer etc.:

Après l’entrée en vigueur le 1er janvier 2020 de la Loi n°2019-222 du 23 mars 2019 qui créé le tribunal judiciaire à partir des anciens tribunaux d’instance et de grande instance et la parution de l’arrêté du 9 décembre 2019, le tribunal judiciaire de Paris dispose désormais de deux régies distinctes :

la régie d’avances et de recettes
(régisseuse et chef de service : Ingrid ROMAGE)
la régie annexe d’avances et de recettes
(régisseur et chef de service : Thierry BOUDIN)

Chaque régie a gardé les mêmes attributions. La régie annexe d’avance et de recettes a donc toujours en charge les saisies sur rémunération ainsi que les expertises.

À noter : le service de la régie du tribunal judiciaire de Paris ne prend plus d’espèces depuis le 1er janvier 2020.
Les paiements doivent s’effectuer :
- par virement, chèque de banque ou chèque CARPA pour les cautionnements
- par virement, chèque de banque, chèque bancaire du client ou chèque CARPA pour les consignations expertises et parties civiles (à défaut de compte CARPA, le chèque tiré sur le compte professionnel de l’avocat est accepté).



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ALTERNATIVELY: since cash is clearly in decline, "Court Payments and Receipts Office/Department"
Peer comment(s):

neutral Francois Boye : Didn't you have a Paymaster office?//You have mentioned no evidence for a 'court cash office'.
9 mins
Nope.
agree Daryo : you can hardly argue with s.o. who has personal knowledge of the subject matter.
1 hr
thanks!
agree Suzie Withers
13 hrs
thank you
agree philgoddard : Though depending on the context, it may need to be left in French.
18 hrs
Yes, if it's part of an address it shouldn't be translated
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3 hrs

Financial Management Policy Office

It might be something like this...

https://www.irs.gov/irm/part1/irm_01-035-018
Peer comment(s):

disagree Daryo : your own reference would suggest "cashier" (might be OK for US)! the "régie" in the ST is not in the business of deciding any kind of "policy" - that certainly wouldn't work.
14 hrs
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Paymaster's office

https://www.lexico.com/definition/paymaster

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https://www.habsburger.net/en/media/josef-engelhart-pension-...

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The primary purpose of a paymaster is to receive fees in escrow by buyers in a large transaction, and disburse to the sellers and brokers on the transaction. A paymaster is usually, but not required to be, a lawyer (also known as a 'lawyer paymaster').
Peer comment(s):

disagree Daryo : As your own refs show, a "paymaster" is only in the business of paying, NOT collecting money, so it won't work // your second ref is about "The Austrian IMPERIAL Court", which is definitely NOT a "court of law" - not relevant.
5 hrs
The primary purpose of a paymaster is to receive fees in escrow by buyers in a large transaction, and disburse to the sellers and brokers on the transaction. A paymaster is usually, but not required to be, a lawyer (also known as a 'lawyer paymaster').
disagree AllegroTrans : buyers, sellers, escrow, brokers?? This is about law court administration and the Austrian Imperial Court is TOTALLY irrelevant
1 day 5 hrs
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14 hrs

payment cashier office

The term describes a payment cashier where people could make advance payments and pay bills.

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Collins Robert dictionary French English
'une régie' is a company or a society or a control room;
'd'avance' means 'in advance'
'les recettes' are 'takings or receipts.
Peer comment(s):

neutral AllegroTrans : You don't pay bills at a court, you pay fines or costs or court fees etc. Try looking at the context
18 mins
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Reference comments

1 hr
Reference:

Defintion

it's true that régie could be an office for or management of but many translations use "petty cash" or "imprest" as someone suggested.
I prefer petty cash as I have never even heard of "imprest" before
Peer comments on this reference comment:

neutral AllegroTrans : I wouldn't call the incoming and outgoing payments of a court "petty cash"; they are subtantial sums (e.g. expert witness fees)
7 hrs
neutral Daryo : "imprest" is definitively wrong https://www.google.com/search?q="imprest" // "petty cash" is not quite right - that would associate to only small amounts not worth the trouble of using "the main system".
9 hrs
neutral Francois Boye : https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/régie
14 hrs
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