POWER COMPANY

16:55 Mar 18 

You have a point but this could possibly be resolved if the asker, who can see all of the document, would respond. Asker, where are you?

15:15 Mar 18 

"I fail to see how power company transmogrifies to..."

It's not that much of a stretch, I think, for two reasons (aside from Phil's astute observation that this text was originally written in Spanish):

For one, what Phil hasn't mentioned yet is that "poderdante" might not be the only word used as a stand-in. See, e.g.:
"...en su calidad de Presidente y Representante Legal de la compañía EMI HOLDINGS MANAGEMENT, S.A., en adelante denominada indistintamente 'la Compañía Poderdante' o 'la Poderdante'."
https://ecuadorpapers.org/ocr/90269 EMIECUADOR S.A. EMPRESA ...

There you have your "company." We've also had a Q like this before in the Spanish-English pair:
https://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/certificates-d...

For another, I'd have expected to see something like "in the name of the COMPANY" here. Why would anyone further specify what should be a placeholder in a contract? Do you regularly see things like "in the name of the FOOD COMPANY"?

I mean I like food. But not like this.

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21:42 Mar 16 

don't hold your breath, but it would be useful to hear from the Asker

22:10 Mar 15 

and it's a big IF, this is a blank form meant to be used by any company wishing to give someone powers of attorney, then "power company" in this ST would mean "the company giving these powers of legal representation".

There is nothing specific to a "power producing/supplying company" in the text that follows, so this would make also sense.

"Power company as in company granting the power" - yes, but the tricky bit is that it would be true for a "power producing company" as well as for any other company. IOW to be sure what exactly "power" is supposed to mean, more context is badly needed.

17:16 Mar 15 

is to know whether this is a blank form, to be used by power companies authorising someone (who is NOT already a company officer) to act on their behalf, or a "finalised" document - a named company authorising a named person.

Although it wouldn't make any substantial difference. If it's a finalised document, the details of this "power company" would be somewhere else in the document.

Replace "power company giving power of attorney to s.o." with "trading company giving power of attorney to s.o.", and then ALL the reasoning is exactly the same, without the repetition of "power" creating confusion.

09:05 Mar 15 

Power company as in company granting the power. This is quite clearly the issue.

21:16 Mar 14 

if an individual (e.g. a director) acting for a power company (unnamed because this is a pro-forma) is granting a POA. I fail to see how power company transmogrifies to "grantor"

18:45 Mar 14 

Maybe Aya has posted this question because she knows perfectly well what 'power company' normally means, but it doesn't make sense in this context.

13:30 Mar 13 

What is your question exactly? A power company would normally be understood to be an electricity generating or supply company. Is this a standard form POA in which the actual name of the power company will be inserted on a one by one basis?

13:26 Mar 13 

That makes things much clearer.

07:19 Mar 13 

I identify the appearing party [must be a natural person] by his aforementioned identity document, which shows me, and has, in my opinion, as it intervenes, capacity to grant this deed of GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY, and for that purpose ...

A natural person acting for themselves is presumed to have the capacity to act on its own, but a natural person acting on behalf of a legal person (here a company) must explicitly prove the authority to do so (so you have the mention of the "capacity to grant this deed")

IOW "the POWER COMPANY" is a specific/named company. Possibly mentioned the first time by its full name, registration number, adresse etc and later referred to as "the power company". One way or another the ST is about acting on behalf of a company, not just any "grantor/principal".

@asker: does the term "POWER COMPANY" occur elsewhere in this document?