Ryan Kelly (asker) Jun 19, 2019:

Hi folks, thanks for the help! It is, in fact, a resolution, and not a contract; my error. So, yes, Robert is correct.

Anne Maclennan Jun 19, 2019:

Is it a misprint for acuerdo ? el acuerdo segundo ???

Charles Davis Jun 19, 2019:

@Robert You could well be right that this is actually a resolution, not a contract; it would be more plausible. In a contract, logically, it would have to be ACUERDAN, because you can't have unilateral contractual agreements. I suppose you might have SE ACUERDA, but that would be pushing it. On Mexican contracts, of course, I bow to your vastly greater experience. Elsewhere, in Spain, for example, I think I have seen examples. But I wouldn't say it's usual.

In any case, the analogy with "Considerandos" is valid in general terms, I think (and worth mentioning, because to me, at least, it's enlightening), because "Acuerda primero/segundo/tercero" refers to the first/second/third numbered articles in a section of the overall document, either actually headed "ACUERDA" or functionally equivalent to a section so headed (just as you could, I think, have "considerandos" of a document in which the word "CONSIDERANDO" does not actually appear, just meaning recitals).

Robert Carter Jun 19, 2019:

@Charles I have a slightly different take on this, although I do believe they are numbered sections after the heading "Acuerda" (not "Acuerdan", because I don't think it's referring to both parties, but rather the government only, e.g., "La administración pública... Acuerda...").
My point is that this has the air of an "oficio" rather than a contract, or, if it is indeed a contract, that this administrative "acuerdo" (i.e., not in the sense of an agreement, but in the sense of an administrative resolution) is part of the contract's background information (along with the "considerandos").
Of course I could be wrong, but "Acuerda" (or "Acuerdan" for that matter) would be highly unusual as a heading in a Mexican contract (there are usually two or three headings, namely, "Antecedentes" and/or "Declaraciones", and "Cláusulas").

Charles Davis Jun 19, 2019:

I'm sure Robert is right and that this refers to the numbered sections of the part of the contract headed "ACUERDAN:
1. ...
2. .... etc.

Similarly, the recitals are headed "CONSIDERANDO:
1. ...
2. ..., etc.

And are often referred to as "el Considerando primero", "el Considerando segundo", and so on.

So in a contract I suppose you might call them agreement clauses, or simply clauses.

philgoddard Jun 18, 2019:

It sounds like another word for article or paragraph, but you haven't given much context. You say it refers to the second of the "acuerdas" - what does that say, and what does the paragraph you're translating say? Does the whole contract just consist of acuerda 1, acuerda 2, and so on?