AllegroTrans Jun 10, 2018:

Asker Could you be so kind please as to provide the complete sentence ?

AllegroTrans Jun 10, 2018:

well... I would call it an application rather than a request...and I think this is only half of a sentence

Jennifer White Jun 10, 2018:

..........sigh Of course it's the reply to a request. What else? Why the big deal??

Daryo Jun 9, 2018:

Not always but often enough to be careful when anything is "obvious", when you finally get the wider picture it's not exactly the one you expected.

BTW, this ST can't be "a request", but it could be "the reply to a request".

AllegroTrans Jun 9, 2018:

Still It would help to see the complete sentence. Asker?

Jennifer White Jun 9, 2018:

Daryo Can't see what is ambiguous here. This is standard stuff - "having regard to the documents in the file………… etc. No point making a big deal here. I would imagine that the sentence ends here anyway.

Daryo Jun 8, 2018:

Although, it could simply be a very old fashioned bureaucratic style - if this is African French, then it's like digging in archaeological layers, they often use a version of French dating from hundred or more years, completely forgotten/outdated in France.

this could ALSO simply mean:

given that you are authorised to ask for that birth certificate (= your demand is legitimate) and you have given the correct information (=you know exactly what to ask), we will give you the Extract from the registry of birth for that person ...

Just goes to show how a too short fragment of the ST can be ambiguous / misleading.

Could we have a full sentence (leaving the names out, of course)?

Jennifer White Jun 7, 2018:

@Daryo Yes, my guess is that this is a request for a birth certificate for someone who never had one and who now needs one, (maybe from an African country? I have translated many such certificates). I wouldn't get too finnicky about the "il résulte" as the meaning is clear and I have come across many odd constructions from these countries..

Daryo Jun 7, 2018:

very likely to be a typo This St might well be a birth certificate, but not one derived from from some official Register of Births.

I have seen passports from ex-French colonies where the date of birth is the whole of "date de naissance: présumée 1939" - not everywhere you have a fully functioning bureaucracy covering the entirety of the population!

So this "certificate of birth" might have been issued years after the person was born without the birth being recorded in any register - thus the parts:

bien-fondé de la demande

l'exactitude des renseignements fournis

Also, you have here in fact two questions, as these are two separate expressions that just happened to used together:

1 le bien-fondé de la demande

2 l'exactitude des renseignements fournis

AllegroTrans Jun 6, 2018:

A typo? Could it be "Il résulte du bien-fondé...."?
And please post the rest of the sentence . This doesn't sound at all like a birth certificate; is is a Court order??