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French Vocabulary

Corporate Law, Contracts & Regulatory Compliance

Vocabulary for contract breaches, non‑disclosure agreements, intellectual property rights, and litigation pathways.

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Lesson Summary

Vocabulary for contract breaches, non‑disclosure agreements, intellectual property rights, and litigation pathways.

Vocabulary

Le cadre juridique de l’entreprise

The vocabulary of the corporate workplace was introduced in the corporate workplace and employment lifecycle. This lesson provides the specific legal lexicon for contracts, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance. The concessive conjunctions bien que and quoique, which require the subjunctive, are treated in subjunctive after conjunctions of concession and are frequently used in legal writing.

Le contrat et ses clauses

French	English
le contrat	contract
la clause	clause
la condition suspensive	condition precedent
la rupture de contrat	breach of contract
la résiliation	termination
le préavis	notice period
la force majeure	force majeure
la confidentialité	confidentiality
la clause de non‑concurrence	non‑compete clause
l’avenant (m)	amendment (to a contract)

Propriété intellectuelle

French	English
la propriété intellectuelle	intellectual property
le brevet	patent
la marque déposée	registered trademark
le droit d’auteur	copyright
la contrefaçon	counterfeiting / infringement
le plagiat	plagiarism
le dépôt légal	legal deposit

Litiges et conformité

French	English
le litige	dispute
le contentieux	litigation
la mise en demeure	formal notice
l’avocat / l’avocate	lawyer
le tribunal de commerce	commercial court
la conformité (réglementaire)	compliance (regulatory)
le régulateur	regulator
la sanction	penalty / sanction
le lanceur d’alerte	whistleblower

Examples

Bien que le contrat ait été signé, une clause de non‑concurrence empêche l'employé de travailler chez un concurrent.
The concessive conjunction bien que triggers the subjonctif passé (ait été signé); clause de non‑concurrence is a legal term.
L'avocat a envoyé une mise en demeure pour rupture de contrat.
Mise en demeure and rupture de contrat are key legal expressions.

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Corporate Law, Contracts & Regulatory ComplianceVocabulary for contract breaches, non‑disclosure agreements, intellectual property rights, and litigation pathways.Evaluate basic contract clauses and draft formal notices regarding compliance issues.VocabularyB2vocabularyLearn French VocabularyFrench VocabularyLe cadre juridique de l’entrepriseThe vocabulary of the corporate workplace was introduced in the corporate workplace and employment lifecycle. This lesson provides the specific legal lexicon for contracts, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance. The concessive conjunctions bien que and quoique, which require the subjunctive, are treated in subjunctive after conjunctions of concession and are frequently used in legal writing.