mejora/mejorar

14:56 Nov 29, 2008 

Okay, try this on:
"...that my client's rights have not been respected by so much as a half of the one-third that belongs to him as the primary heir - (repetition for emphasis here) not even half of his apportioned third - given that in the will ... XXX should have expressly delineated the portions whereas in fact what he did was to leave the entirety of his assets to the respondents without expressing, even implicitly, his intentions for apportionment to his grandchildren, responding here today..."
Waddayathink??

14:35 Nov 29, 2008 

I suspected that I was out of my depth due to it being for the British legal system. The attorney is playing the tech term in Spanish against common usage of 'mejorar'. If you can do this with correct British legaleze, it's a better translation, but the meaning would be the most important. In that case, I think you ould need to use 'the assets' or whatever general term fits the facts in your source context.

14:20 Nov 29, 2008 

I'm translating the Petition/Claim for both the Petitioner and the Court (UK English)

13:13 Nov 29, 2008 

I think that the attorney here is playing on the title in Spanish of the type of action, so that your translation of 'legitima y mejora' must come into play. What is your target text rendering of this tech legal term? Knowing that, perhaps we can offer some renderings of the other uses of 'mejora' in the source.