"Not... neither" or "not... nor"

In formal English (legal UK English to be specific), should one use:

"Body A does not give any warranty as to [...] to body B, nor does body B give any such warranty to body C"

or

"Body A does not give any warranty as to [...], neither does body B give any such warranty to body C"

Unfortunately I do not have the flexibility of redrafting the sentence as a whole, as I would have preferred!

Solution 1:

'Nor' is the correct choice.

Your sentence (as is) requires negation and a coordinating conjunction. Both 'neither' and 'nor can provide the negation. However, only 'nor' is a coordinating conjunction (but, or, so, and, yet, for, nor are the coordinating conjunctions.) simple explanation of coordinating conjunctions

If you feel attached to the word 'neither', you may say 'and neither' instead of 'nor'. these examples include quite a few sentences with 'and neither', in case you wanted to double-check and get a better feel for its usage.

There can be confusion due to the fact that 'neither' can be used as a conjunction, but it is only a 'correlating conjunction' a simple explanation of correlating conjunctions. In your sentence, both clauses are independent, and therefore require a coordinating conjunction, not a correlating conjunction.