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Certified Contract Translation

eVerbary translates your contract into English for $24.95 per page with no word cap, by a professional human translator, with a signed certification. Most orders are delivered within a few hours. Accepted by USCIS and by US universities, colleges and schools, or your money back.

A contract is translated clause by clause, not summarised

Every clause is translated, including the ones that look like boilerplate. Governing law, jurisdiction, notices, severability and force majeure are where a dispute is actually decided, and a translation that compresses them has removed the part a lawyer will read first.

Defined terms are translated consistently throughout and capitalised as the original capitalises them, because a defined term that drifts between renderings stops being a defined term. Where a term has no US counterpart, the original is kept with a literal rendering rather than replaced by an approximate equivalent that imports the wrong body of law.

Civil-law concepts do not have US equivalents

This is where contract translation goes wrong most often. A civil-law rescisión is not the same as a common-law rescission. Fortuitous event (caso fortuito) and force majeure (fuerza mayor) are distinguished in many civil codes and collapsed in most English drafting. A penalty clause (cláusula penal) is enforceable in jurisdictions where a US liquidated-damages clause would be struck down.

Translating any of those into the nearest US term asserts a legal characterisation that nobody has made and that may be wrong. We give the original term with a literal rendering and let counsel do the characterising.

Signatures, stamps and what makes it binding

Signature blocks, company stamps, initialled pages and notarial or witness attestations are translated and described, including where a page carries initials and nothing else. In many jurisdictions the stamp is what binds the company, and a translation that omits it omits the binding element.

Amendments, annexes and schedules are part of the contract; a translation of the body alone is incomplete. Related: powers of attorney and articles of incorporation.

How it works

Upload a photo or a scan of your document, pick the language pair and check out online. You never have to mail originals: a legible copy is all we need.

A professional human translator, never machine translation, translates the document word for word and mirrors the layout of the original. Every certified translation ships with a signed Certificate of Translation Accuracy that meets the requirements of USCIS, courts and universities.

Your translation is delivered digitally, usually within 24 hours for documents of one to three pages, and same-day delivery is available. If anything needs adjusting, we revise it.

Certified vs. standard translation

A certified translation is a word-for-word translation accompanied by a signed statement attesting to its accuracy and completeness. It is what official bodies require: USCIS, courts, universities and government agencies. Certified translations are $24.95 per page, where one sheet of your document is one page, with no word cap.

A standard translation is the same professional human translation without the certificate, for when you only need to understand the content or for internal or informal use. It is billed at the same $24.95 per page with no word cap.

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