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19:05 Jul 14, 2021 

That Compendium is great, now that you mention it. It's rare to have a Google book search come up "read the whole thing for free" - and imagine having active hyperlinks in the table of contents of a book that was published in !910! And I couldn't find other examples of that usage either. "Evicción y saneamiento" being used as shorthand for "saneamiento por evicción" does seem to create some questionable sentences. Do you think that "tenido de" could mean "held to"? Sounds like "had of/by" which, though not a good choice in English, isn't far off from "held to."

16:36 Jul 14, 2021 

I did click on your link but I couldn't see that sentence there as only a few brief lines appeared as a popup over the rest of the page. That's interesting and I think you may have a good case for it being equivalent to "obligado de", although, after having made a brief search, I haven't managed to find other examples of this usage. It's definitely not a stretch though as the formulaic expression in Mexican Spanish is "obligado al saneamiento para el caso de evicción", but there is clearly some kind of ellipsis going on here because "obligado de evicción y saneamiento... respecto de los bienes" doesn't make a whole lot of sense as it stands. J.F. Becerra (2011) translates "obligado al saneamiento para el caso de evicción" in his Dictionary of Mexican Legal Terminology as being "bound by a covenant of warranty".
By the way, your link to the "Compendium of the Laws of Mexico" is a fabulous find! Particularly liked the author's preface containing a scathing review of an earlier translator's attempt at a similar work, "Thus, throughout, "ignotium per ignotius"!

12:49 Jul 14, 2021 

That I don't think "tenido de" as a stand alone unit actually translates to "liable for." Rather I was translating the entire phrase in context and then plugging in the first two words of my translation in for the first two words of the source phrase, because of the limitations of the KudoZ answering set-up.

I have "tenido de" as something like "obligado de" because of this sentence: "Todo el que vende una cosa está obligado o tenido de evicción y saneamiento al comprador, aún cuando nada se hubiese pactado al celebrarse el contrato." This sentence is from a very old law book [Historia del derecho en Cataluña, Mallorca y Valencia: (1879)]. The link to it is in the notes to my answer but now I realize people might not be clicking the link.

I would translate the entire clause in context as "the contributing parties shall be held liable in the event of breach of warranty of title." I think this is a very good translation. It's just a matter of which connotation or emphasis is right for the situation, i.e., closer to the literal meaning of the source text, or as smooth and concise as possible?

14:01 Jul 12, 2021 

While I cannot opine on the current terms and translations with much certainty, I can say I've seen some "official" translations that are not very good or not accurate at all -- even officially translated statutes.

Again, not knowing much, I would rather put my money on any of the answers offered thus far because all of the answerers have a proven track record of offering accurate translations within this forum.

10:34 Jul 12, 2021 

After consulting many references, I believe warranty of title or warranty against dispossession are the best translations. The official translation of the Spanish Civil Code uses "dispossession" as a translation for "evicción".



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