Or
Notification of Quittance

HTH

A disclaimer notice. This should cover all types of claims. Depending on the document, you may want to use "Disclaimer Clause" if the notice is part of a contract etc.

A disclaimer is denial of legal claim over something.

إخلاء طرف is also known as براءة ذمة.





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Note added at 2002-11-05 15:33:39 (GMT)
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For what it\'s worth...

Here\'s what The Financial Review Dictionary of Investment Terms says about disclaimer:

A statement which allows a person or corporation to avoid liability, if before, or at the time of giving advice, that person or corporation makes it clear that he or she accepts no responsibility for his or her statement.

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إخلاء طرف
(1) in the sense of صرف من الخدمة is certificate of discharge,
(2) in the sense of إعفاء/ إبراء ذمة is release,
(3) in the sense of تنازل, that is the transfer of a title, right, or claim to another, is quitclaim,
(4) in the sense of تصريح, that is official certification of blamelessness, trustworthiness, or suitability, is clearance.

this is an interesting discussion. it highlights the imortance of context if you want to render a meaning of a word or a term. the context of this phrase is legal/formal/contractual. so the term could mean all the above and none at the same time. to be specific, i look at it in the context of employment. it could mean notice of termination of service/employment. it , also, could mean in a lrager contractual context: notice or declaration of exemption from responsibility/liability as in the exemption and exclusion clauses included for example in the contracts we enter into when we buy a bus/train/plane tickets. i hope this would be of some help.

If the intendention is for one party to absolve another from liability or responsibility, then "letter of absolution" is a suitable term. Usage cases can be termination of an employee, a landlord certifying that an outgoing tenant has no liabilities left, or a patient absolving a surgeon from complications due to a medical procedure. The difference between this and a disclaimer is that here one party is absolving the other from libability rather than one party disclaiming responsibility.

My earlier comment is based on the context of Arab countries like Egypt, where if you have worked for the government or public sector and resigned, you may not be able to work for another branch of the government or travel abroad without receiving "إخلاء طرف" from your previous employer. I myself had to get one from "أكاديمية البجث العلمي و التكنولوجيا" signed and stamped by a rep. from each of the Academy's departments. This was over twenty years ago, so things might have changed.

Anyway, here are some examples:

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:SgUPPcuhgQQC:www.fs.fed...

"This was made worse by the fact that pilots had no way of knowing exactly where these facilities were located. The matter became so confusing that the FSS specialists who are responsible for pilot briefings were given a blanket letter of absolution for any briefing errors resulting from this restriction. Of course the pilots who received these briefings were not so fortunate."

http://www.atlanta.adp.com/news/letrofab.pdf

"LOA 06/28/00
Tax Filing Letter of Absolution

Responsibility for Penalty & Interest
Fax to 770-612-6457

Due to the timing of my adjustments, I understand that ADP cannot guarantee timely deposits of taxes. ADP will make every effort to deposit the tax liabilities timely, however, ..."

Hope this helps,

Alaa Zeineldine