French term
par application de leur statut ou leurs biens
Sub-heading: Exclusions communes a toutes les garanties:
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Toutefois, de telles consequences ne sont pas exclues, si elles resultent:
- des conditions générales d’achat ou des cahiers des charges des collectivités publiques ou des établissements ou organismes publics ou semi-publics, même en cas de transfert de responsabilité.
De plus, la garantie s’applique au remboursement de toute somme que l’assuré serait tenu de faire à ces organismes, en cas de dommages atteignant leurs agents PAR APPLICATION DE LEUR STATUT OU LEURS BIENS, quelles que soient les responsabilités engagées.
| 3 +2 | by virtue of their status or their assets |
Nikki Scott-Despaigne
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| 4 | [damage] ... caused to their agents by virtue of their status[,] or to their property |
SABrook
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Apr 2, 2017 22:17: Karen Zaragoza changed "Kudoz queue" from "In queue" to "Public"
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Proposed translations
Psychologist, Court-certified legal
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English
by virtue of their status or their assets
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Note added at 15 hrs (2017-04-03 13:59:31 GMT)
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The phrase may be incomplete, but that's not too serious.
"Par application de" can still be rendered by "by virtue of".
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Daryo
: the wording of the question was the result of wrong parsing - no point translating before correcting it!
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No doubt. Except I didn't have the benefit of that information before posting. ;-)//Back again, and apparently the parsing is fine.
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Charles Davis
: I think Daryo's right about the parsing and that it's "dommages atteignant [a] leurs agents par application de leur statut ou [b] leurs biens", but your translation is correct in any case.
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It is helpful to have the complete phrase, but it does seem to work in any event.
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ph-b (X)
: There's nothing wrong with the parsing and your translation is correct - Sue suggested it herself (+ see my ref. comments) here: https://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/insurance/63064...
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B D Finch
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SABrook
: I think, after considering all of the responses, that it means 'damage caused to their agents/officials by virtue of their status[,] or to their property...'
4 days
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[damage] ... caused to their agents by virtue of their status[,] or to their property
This is the most logical explanation but the ambiguity has been pointed out to the client.
Discussion
SABrook/Sue acknowledged my comment there and then closed the question as 'errant'.
what IS really funny is that BOTH made the same mistake in parsing!
How comes? Could it be that the imposed CAT tool done the parsing for them and they simply took it for granted?
As I will assume that this is a translation test, they are both welcome to do the test themselves.
http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/insurance/630643...