May 31, 2006 08:41
17 yrs ago
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French term

déposées dans la caisse sociale

French to English Bus/Financial Law (general) Statuts
This is from "statuts" for a company, and the "actions" referred to are the shares held by the directors as guarantees for the performance of the board.

In the following sentence do you think "caisse sociale" could be translated by "the company's account"? I've found capital stock for caisse sociale in the glossary, but it doesn't make sense because it seems that the actual share certificates are physically deposited in this "caisse".

Ces actions sont affectées, en totalité, à la garantie des actes de l'administration, même de ceux qui seraient exclu­sivement personnels a un des administrateurs. Elles sont nominatives, inaliénables, frappées d'un timbre indiquant leur inaliénabilité et déposées dans la caisse sociale.

Discussion

Moorhead-Mor (X) (asker) May 31, 2006:
It's a société anonyme, and they manufacture pharmaceutical preparations and the like.
Julie Barber May 31, 2006:
do you know what type of company this is? (the activity that is...)
http://www.companyregistrations.co.uk/companies-limited-by-g...

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(literally and figuratively) cash box

In accounting, the "caisse" is the actual cash on hand, which is considered to be kept physically in a "caisse".

"social" clearly refers to the company.

So... I think that what they mean is that the shares are deposited in the company HQ's "cash box"... however strange that may seem.

The fact that the shares in question are clearly actual physical bits of paper also suggests they are talking about the physical cash box.
In reality, of course, I would assume actual petty cash is dealt with less primitively.


I am not absolutely confident about this one.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I have to say I'm still not totally sure which to choose between "account" and "cash box", but Christopher's explanation was really clear and logical. Thanks to everyone for their input and help!"
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Social (Security)Fund

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deposited in the company's account

You are right.

HTH
Mary
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