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For most non-professionals, a translation seems to be a simple enough process of taking words from one language and restituting them in another language with the necessary grammatical adjustments.
Though this covers the general idea of what a translation entails, it is woefully inadequate when referring to legal translations, as each country has its own legal system, with its own particularities.